NEW YORK CITY (WABC) The entire New York Rangers coaching staff will miss Wednesday s game against the Philadelphia Flyers due to COVID protocols, the team announced on Twitter.
The Rangers have called up coaches from their minor league team, the Hartford Wolf Pack, to coach the game.
NEW YORK (WABC) Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday, a flurry of COVID restrictions that will be lifted in New York.
The governor said effective March 22, the final five yellow zone restrictions will be lifted and that all clusters will be lifted.
Indoor fitness classes, primarily in New York City, will reopen on March 22 with restrictions.
Those remaining clusters included East Bronx, West Bronx, Manhattan, Newburgh, New Windsor and Queens, Kew Gardens/Forest Hills.
In addition, the governor announced that indoor fitness classes, primarily in New York City, will reopen on March 22 with restrictions.
They will be subject to the same safety protocols that have been in place all across the state including, 33% capacity limits, masks, social distancing and equipment cleaning.
With so many businesses shut down, will our neighborhood downtowns rebuild?
When will we see Broadway shows again?
Also, could this year of stress and change have a long-term impact on our health?
With so much to dissect, any discussion about reopening and getting into this so-called normal, revolves around one thing - the vaccine.
On Sunday, the nation set a new record for vaccinations in a single day, but there is still a long way to go. 22.5% of New York residents have gotten one dose, and more than 11% are fully vaccinated. In New Jersey, nearly 24% of people have partial protection, and 12% have completed the inoculation. And in Connecticut, 26% of people have at least one shot at 26%, while just under 14% are fully vaccinated.
STATEN ISLAND, New York (WABC) Some embattled bar owners on Staten Island, who have refused to comply with COVID restrictions, are now planning to sue Governor Andrew Cuomo.
The owners of Mac s Public House claim Governor Cuomo s COVID restrictions defied logic and they have declared their business an autonomous zone.
Naveen Dhaliwal reports from Staten Island where sheriff s deputies shut down a bar and arrested the general manager.
The bar has been closed since December, but now the owners are planning to reopen without enforcing COVID regulations. Mac s is going to open and we re not going to follow any mandates, Mac s Public House co-owner Dan Presti said. If you wanna wear masks, wear mask if you don t, you don t have to. Nowhere are small business owners supposed to be the mask police and enforce these policies.
Shakespeare in the Park is returning this summer following a hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the free outdoor series returning to the Public Theater's Delacorte Theater in Central Park in July.