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As of Monday, December 14, indoor dining will once again by banned in New York City. Governor Cuomo announced the restaurant rollback in a press conference earlier today, a reaction to the rising spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations and positive case rates throughout New York State.
The news comes not even three months after the governor reopened New York dining rooms at 25-percent capacity. In the weeks in between, restaurant and bar owners have grappled with ever-changing state and city mandates, with the
whens and
whats of whether indoor dining would close again and if, more importantly, federal aid for the depleted restaurant industry would ever come.