Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo announced a zoned shutdown of restaurants in Brooklyn and Queens, but didn’t disclose the neighborhoods (Via EaterNY)
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Imagesto shut down non-essential businesses like restaurants in parts of Brooklyn and Queens with spiking COVID-19 infections, introduced a plan to shut down non-essential businesses like restaurants in parts of Brooklyn and Queens with spiking COVID-19 infections.
In this new zoned shutdown effort, restaurants in parts of Borough Park, Midwood, Bensonhurst, Kensington, Sheepshead Bay, Rego Park, Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, and Far Rockaway will be restricted to takeout-only, accordingreleased by Cuomo on Tuesday evening. Those neighborhoods are part of what the state has dubbed the red zone.
Establishments in orange zones, which for now appear to include parts of Sunset Park, Brighton Beach, and elsewhere, will be able to do outdoor dining, with a maximum of four people per table, but no indoor dining. Venues in the yellow zone will have both indoor and outdoor options, with the same four person cap on tables. New York City restaurants in areas not under Cuomo’s new code system can currently accommodate up to 10 diners per table indoors.
Cuomo had suggested yesterday that he might close nonessential businesses in hot spot zones, but took issue with de Blasio’s plan to assign shutdowns according to ZIP codes. The governor is instead using cluster data to tailor the closures. Cuomo didn’t initially release the boundaries of the zones he had identified earlier today prompting confusion, with Twitter usersThe zones don’t line up precisely with neighborhood boundaries. Gravesend, for example, appears to mostly be in the yellow, but has sections in both the more restrictive orange and red areas as well. Kew Gardens, Forest Hills, and Rego park also straddle all three zones.
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