Months into the pandemic and New Yorkers continue to wonder when the city will get back on its feet.

While some progress has been made, the city has no clear plan for recovery, and poor perceptions of the five boroughs have diminished morale and led some people to leave.

But resilient New Yorkers are still hanging on. 

“New York isn’t dead. But its people are suffering. They need help, compassion and leadership. They shouldn’t have to do this alone,” New York Times Editorial Board Member Mara Gay wrote in an op-ed for the Times.

Gay joined "One New York" Friday to talk about Mayor de Blasio's response to the crisis, including his news conference Thursday, during which he began talking about a recovery plan. 

“It’s too little too late. I don’t know what planet the mayor is on. But what you would hope to see from a mayor and what I would hope to see at this point is a very clear, detailed, at this point, concrete plan about how to get the city back, what he’s doing,” Gay told NY1.

Gay said she’d like to see the mayor, and even the governor, riding the subway everyday and show the city that it’s safe and that they are in this fight alongside them.

“In the 1960s, when riots gripped the country in the wake of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., New York City avoided that fate, soothed in part by Mayor John Lindsay, who walked the streets of Harlem, mourning with devastated New Yorkers,” Gay had written in her New York Times op-ed.

Gay herself suffered from coronavirus, and while young and healthy, endured a long road to recovery. Gay said she is still healing months later and expects her journey to full recovery to take about a year.