{"id":66697,"date":"2021-02-20T15:05:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=66697"},"modified":"2021-02-20T15:06:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T15:06:22","slug":"indoor-dining-capacity-expands-to-35-in-nyc-next-week-cuomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=66697","title":{"rendered":"Indoor dining capacity expands to 35% in NYC next week: Cuomo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Indoor dining will be extended to 35% seating capacity in New York City restaurants beginning on Feb. 26, 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

News Desk: Indoor dining in New York City will be expanded to allow bars and restaurants to seat patrons at 35% capacity on Feb. 26 \u2014 marking a 10% increase since inside seating resumed on Feb. 12, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Friday.<\/p>\n

While the eateries in the rest of the state are allowed to open indoors at 50 percent of their normal capacity, the state has slowly allowed eateries in the Five Boroughs to reopen as COVID-19 case counts have fallen in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

In New York City, the positive test rate hovers around 4.4% \u2014 marking a significant decline from the \u201cpost-holiday surge\u201d in early January, when just under 10% of all administered tests returned a positive result.<\/p>\n

Now, after pushing for more relaxed limits, restaurateurs can seat more patrons inside, giving them a lifeline amid a yearlong period of economic hardship brought on by the pandemic.<\/p>\n

The new 35% limit puts the city on the same page as restaurants in New Jersey \u2014 which, Cuomo said, had been making New York\u2019s restrictions ineffective, as city dwellers had been crossing the Hudson River to dine in the Garden State.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s happening now is people in New York City \u2014 Staten Island, Manhattan \u2014 are going to New Jersey, to those restaurants, so it\u2019s not really accomplishing a purpose,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n

Cuomo hinted that the limits could continue to be raised to match the rest of the state, provided case counts continue to decline \u2014 but state health officials would be taking a more conservative approach to the Five Boroughs.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously we\u2019re more sensitive to New York City because of the density and the concentration and the history,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Desk: Indoor dining in New York City will be expanded to allow bars and restaurants to seat patrons at 35% capacity on Feb. 26 \u2014 marking a 10% increase since inside seating resumed on Feb. 12, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Friday. While the eateries in the rest of the state are allowed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":66724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,141,5],"tags":[273],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n