Feliz and Tisch discuss World Cup watch party plans

Speaking about the World Cup and also watch parties, there's been numerous articles which stated that public events, including World Cup watch parties on open streets and plazas and parks, will be scaled back due to NYPD concerns.

Is it true?

And if yes, can you talk to us about some of the concerns?

And also, is the plan or the hope to have police presence at every single watch party?

My understanding is that the mayor is going to announce a very robust set of watch parties for FIFA around all...

Five boroughs, which will run the length of the tournament.

We do have, that we know of, already announced the five FIFA fan zones that will be

five FIFA fan zones, one in each borough.

So my hope and my expectation is that we are going to have a lot of festivities in New York City around the World Cup.

Obviously, we want to celebrate.

We need to celebrate safely.

I already told you about the need to look at all things FIFA through a counterterrorism lens.

That's what this department is doing.

don't have unlimited resources, and we also have a lot of other things that are occurring in New York City.

You know, when a country hosts the World Cup or the Olympics, usually they cancel everything else going on in that city at that time.

We didn't in New York City.

We're still having the Puerto Rican Day Parade.

We're having lots of the Pride Parade.

We are having many or nearly all of the standard large-scale events in New York City this summer that we would have in a summer with, like, none of these.

Events going on and so I would appreciate it if you could think about the demands on this department in in that context.

We would like to facilitate a lot.

Perhaps we won't be able to facilitate everything but there will be a lot of celebrating in New York City.