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In a live forum on Wednesday evening, four of the 14 candidates in the mayoral election appeared on Zoom to debate issues related to the city’s battered restaurant and nightlife industry. The panel, hosted by the New York City Hospitality Alliance, featured: Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams; Ray McGuire, the former vice chairman of Citigroup; New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer; and Maya Wiley, a civil rights attorney, professor, and activist. Andrew Yang was scheduled to participate in the panel but was “at home recovering from coronavirus,” according to Andrew Rigie, executive director of the NYC Hospitality Alliance, who moderated the event.
NEW YORK – Billy Swenson is waiting for the callback.
It s been about 11 months since he was furloughed from his serving job at a Midtown Manhattan restaurant.
At first, the time away from work was a welcome break. Some days before the COVID-19 pandemic, he was on his feet for 12 hours, also working in catering when jobs arose.
Now, things are dragging on. Unemployment does not scratch the surface of the money we used to make, he said. Sitting here making a quarter of what we used to make … that has been very stressful and there s been not much relief.
Swenson is one of the thousands of workers in New York City s beleaguered restaurant industry hoping to get back to a semblance of normal as indoor dining in the city reopens this week.
Commercial Observer & REBNY Host Historic Public Service Event Convening Top Leaders To Layout NYC S Recovery Plans
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NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Commercial Observer, the premier media and information services company that informs and connects leaders in the commercial real estate industry, partnered with the
Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), New York s leading real estate advocacy and trade organization, to host a historic
Celebration of Public Service event on Thursday, January 28, 2021.
The event came together virtually in the midst of the pandemic to jumpstart 2021 with a discussion on the City s recovery plans. The program brought together New York s most influential business leaders and City and State officials to make one message clear:
NYC Indoor Dining Reopens on Valentineâs Day
Feb. 1, 2021 New York City will resume indoor dining on Valentineâs Day, though capacity will be limited to 25%, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday.
Cuomo banned indoor dining in mid-December to slow the spread of the coronavirus during the holidays but said the recent decline in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations is reassuring.
âWe were expecting this surge, and we handled it, and weâre on the other side of it,â Cuomo said during a news briefing.
In 2020, Cuomo ordered restaurants to close in March and reopened some indoor dining in late September. He prohibited it again in mid-December to prevent coronavirus transmission during the busy holidays.