31: Terrorist truck attack on bike path near West Street kills eight and injures 11. December 11: Attempted terrorist attack at the Port Authority injures 4. December 28: An apartment building fire in Belmont, Bronx kill 13 people and injures 14. City registers only 290 murders, the lowest since 1928 and the lowest per capita since 1945. 2018 January 1: New Year is rung in at 10 degrees Fahrenheit, coldest in 100 years and second coldest on record. March 11: A sightseeing helicopter crashes in the East River near the Upper East Side, killing five tourists. June 11: Three World Trade Center opens. June 20: 15-year old Lesandro Guzman-Felix is murdered by members of the Trinitarios gang at a Bronx bodega in a case of mistaken identity. July: 30 Hudson Yards tops out as tallest building in Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project and features an 80-foot cantilever observation deck. 2019 May 19: Empire Outlets New York City, a retail complex in Staten Island, opens its doors after construction in 2015. This is the first outlet mall in New York City. This is developed by SHoP Architects. June 10: A helicopter crashes into the AXA Equitable Center in Midtown, Manhattan, killing the pilot. June 28: Central Park’s beloved hilltop castle reopened after a 15-month renovation that reinvigorated the 1858 structure’s original look. August 10: Jeffrey Epstein commits suicide in the Manhattan Detention Center while awaiting trail for recruiting underage girls for sexual service, October 3: Launch of 14th Street Busway (M14 Select Bus Service). In 2019 there was a record number of 66.6 million of visitors to New York City and an industry’s economic impact for $80.3 billion. 2020s 2020 Over 1.3 million people are registered with New York City's municipal identification card ("IDNYC") program. February: Genomic analyses suggest that COVID-19 disease had been introduced to New York as early as Mid-February, and that most cases were linked to Europe, rather than Asia. March 1: A 39-year-old health care worker who had returned home to Manhattan from Iran on February 25 became the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in New York. March 15: all schools in the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) system closed until at least mid-April. March 22: The city goes into a state of lockdown, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. March 30: The USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) arrived in New York City to assist in against the COVID-19 pandemic.