Andrew Cuomo Orders: Last News

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo said bars, restaurants, establishments with New York State liquor licenses (like bowling alleys), and gyms must close at 10 pm statewide starting Friday in a new crackdown to contain COVID-19.The tightening and hyper-vigilance doesn’t bode well for movie theaters, which have been lobbying to reopen in New York City before more key studio releases drop from the holiday schedule.“It looks like the rest of 2020 is going to be a bust for movies theaters. Even though Wonder Woman is still on the schedule right now, as much as we’d like it to stay there, it doesn’t seem that is going to,” said Joe Masher, president of NATO New York State.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered all public and private schools in so-called hotspot zip codes in Brooklyn closed on Tuesday as COVID infections spike, in a setback to NYC’s reopening efforts.The news comes as the CEO of the nation’s biggest theater chain publicly blamed the governor for crippling the industry by keeping movie theaters across the state closed. Cuomo’s focus on virus clusters makes it unlikely he’ll address theaters imminently — and, par for the course, they weren’t mentioned at Cuomo’s press briefing Monday.The governor announced that the state will be taking over enforcement efforts of hotspots, relying in part on local resources.