What you need to know for Friday and the weekend.
Coronavirus in N.Y.C.: Latest Updates |
Weather: Chance of showers and thunderstorms; high in the low 80s. Mixed this weekend; upper 70s Saturday and mid-60s Sunday. |
Alternate-side parking: Suspended through Sunday, resuming Monday. |
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Five of New York’s 10 regions can start to reopen on Friday. |
A five-county section of central New York that includes Syracuse has met the criteria necessary to begin reopening some businesses this weekend, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Thursday. |
Central New York is the fifth upstate region where construction, manufacturing and curbside retail businesses that were closed amid the coronavirus pandemic can start up again on Friday, Mr. Cuomo said. |
The other areas are the Finger Lakes, including Rochester; the Southern Tier, which borders Pennsylvania; the Mohawk Valley, west of Albany; and the rural North Country, which includes the Adirondack Mountains. |
The rest of the state, including New York City, has not yet achieved the seven health-related benchmarks established by Mr. Cuomo as necessary to begin reopening. |
The mayor criticizes officers over a face mask arrest. |
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has repeatedly defended the Police Department’s enforcement of social-distancing rules, on Thursday criticized officers captured on video arresting a woman who was not wearing a face mask in the subway. |
In the video, officers leading the woman out of the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station in Brooklyn appear to wrestle her to the ground after she slaps away one officer’s hand. The police then appear to handcuff her as her daughter looks on. |
Mr. de Blasio, at his daily news briefing, said that the encounter contained “complexities” but that the officers’ actions were inappropriate. |
“Whatever else was happening in that moment, we should never have a situation where a mom with her child ends up under arrest for that kind of offense,” he said. |
The mayor has acknowledged that several recent videos have highlighted the need for officers to be better trained in how to enforce social-distancing rules. But he has also said that the number of arrests and summonses for violations of those rules has been minimal and that the police would continue to play a role in enforcement. |
Disney, citing pandemic, closes ‘Frozen’ on Broadway. |
Disney Theatrical Productions said on Thursday that its stage adaptation of “Frozen” would not reopen on Broadway once the pandemic eases, making the musical the first show to be felled by the coronavirus crisis. |
“Frozen” had been the weakest of the three Disney musicals that had been running on Broadway — the others were “The Lion King” and “Aladdin” — and the company made it clear that it did not believe audiences would return in substantial enough numbers to sustain all of those shows. |
“This difficult decision was made for several reasons but primarily because we believe that three Disney productions will be one too many titles to run successfully in Broadway’s new landscape,” Thomas Schumacher, the president of Disney Theatrical Productions, said in a letter to his staff. |
Mr. Schumacher said the company was committed to “The Lion King” and “Aladdin” on Broadway, to “The Lion King” and “Mary Poppins” in London’s West End, and to touring productions of “The Lion King” and “Frozen” in North America and “The Lion King” in Britain. |
New York State senators representing oceanfront communities are calling for a safe reopening plan for beaches. [New York Post] |
Representative Eliot Engel has remained in Washington since late March and hasn’t visited his district, which was hit hard by the coronavirus. [The Atlantic] |
What we’re watching: Peter Baker, The Times’s chief White House correspondent, discusses President Trump and virus relief funds for New York and other states on “The New York Times Close Up With Sam Roberts.” The show airs Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and Sunday at 12:30 p.m. [CUNY TV] |
And finally: A virtual social weekend |
The Times’s Melissa Guerrero writes: |
Although most performance spaces, museums and community centers are closed, people are finding creative ways to connect through virtual events and programs. Here are two suggestions for maintaining a New York social life this weekend while keeping a safe distance from other people. |
Jarry magazine, a queer food journal, and the Food Issue Group, a New York-based collective of chefs, farmers and food workers, are partnering for a weekend of events on Instagram Live — including drag performances, conversations and cooking segments — to benefit F.I.G.’s Frontline Community Food Relief initiative. |
“Perhaps this work is even more gratifying because there is so much appreciation and solidarity and none of us are taking anything for granted,” said Ora Wise, an organizer at F.I.G. |
Flushing Town Hall at Home: Facebook Watch Party |
On Friday at 7 p.m., learn about the musician Joe Kye and his life as an immigrant Asian-American. Mr. Kye will be joined by the Chinese-American hip-hop artist Jason Chu for the performance, to be told through violin looping, electronics, singing and storytelling, |
Metropolitan Diary: Simple question |
I was in New York for a business trip in the early 1970s. I was crossing the street and saw a man coming toward me. I could see that he was wearing a watch. |
“Could you please tell me what time it is?” I said. |
“No,” he said without hesitating, and then kept on walking. |
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