New rules for coronavirus testing requirements at catered affairs
Updated 8:09 AM;
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Students of Gaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning High School, celebrate their senior prom at the Hilton Garden Inn on June 6, 2018. As guidelines change for indoor and outdoor gathering limits, smaller catered affairs will get a reprieve from mandatory coronavirus testing requirements come Friday.(Staten Island Advance/ Victoria Priola)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. As New York City guidelines change for indoor and outdoor gathering limits, smaller catered affairs will get a reprieve from mandatory coronavirus (COVID-19) testing requirements come Friday, April 2.
Due to an increase in the amount of people allowed to gather inside and outdoors by the state, proof of a negative COVID-19 test will no longer be required for smaller indoor and outdoor catered parties, including weddings, Sweet 16s, birthday parties and bridal showers.
Let the parties begin! Dancing to be allowed at catered affairs, Cuomo announces
Updated Feb 23, 2021;
Posted Feb 22, 2021
In this 2019 file photo, Tottenville High School seniors celebrate their prom at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. (Staten Island Advance)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. It’s like when actor Kevin Bacon yells out “Let’s dance!” at the end of the 1984 film ”Footloose.”
Like the movie, in which dancing is banned in a small U.S. town, moving and mingling on a dance floor even outdoors has been prohibited during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic across New York state.
Catering hall owners gear up for weddings of 150 people starting March 15
Updated Jan 31, 2021;
Posted Jan 30, 2021
Cate and Daniel Morales were married earlier this month at a small, 20 person wedding at the Hilton Garden Inn, Bloomfield. (Courtesy of the Nicotra Group)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Let the parties begin.
That was the sentiment among Staten Island catering hall owners upon hearing wedding receptions can resume March 15 at 50% of a facility’s capacity or up to 150 guests. And everyone needs to present a negative coronavirus (COVID-19) test result at the door, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday. He was not specific about the timeframe for taking the test before an event.