Category: NYC City Life

NYC Restaurateurs: Business Down 40 to 60 Percent Due to Vaccine Mandate

New York City restaurateurs are complaining that their business has been slashed severely by the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which requires people 12 and older to show vaccination proof for indoor dining, indoor fitness, and indoor entertainment. Pre-pandemic, O’Donoghue’s Pub and Restaurant was a successful business that has been open for 10 years in Times Square, Manhattan. Fergal…


Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections Disrupt ‘Aladdin’ Reopening, In-person Harvard Classes

Breakthrough COVID-19 infections canceled a Broadway performance of “Aladdin” a day after it reopened for the first time in more than a year due to the pandemic. Producers of the Disney-backed performance told the audience at 7 p.m. on Wednesday that its testing protocols detected CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus cases at The New Amsterdam…


NBA Star Kyrie Irving Misses Team Media Day in Brooklyn Amid Citywide COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving was not able to enter the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and missed the team’s media day amid the citywide mandate that forces anyone entering a sports venue to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Irving, who appeared in a Zoom call on Monday, requested privacy when asked about his COVID-19 vaccination…


Tony Awards Ceremony Slumps to 2.6 Million Low on Television

LOS ANGELES—The television audience for Sunday’s Tony Awards for theater slumped to a new low despite a star-studded cast that promoted Broadway’s return after an 18-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Broadcaster CBS said on Monday that just 2.6 million Americans tuned in for the two-hour special, which did double duty as an awards…


Black Lives Matter NYC Leader Promises ‘Uprising’ Against City’s Vaccine Passports

One of the leaders of a Black Lives Matter group in New York City promised an “uprising” against the city’s COVID-19 vaccine passports, decrying the system as racist. According to data provided by New York state, about 85 percent of black residents have not received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Data provided by New York…


Lower Rents Bring New Innovators to New York City

By Rodolfo Delgado After a year of stress and quarantine, I decided to go to Madison Square Park, my favorite park in the city, and start writing this piece from a bench. New York is far from dead. In the background, jazz music is playing, and people are dancing in the park. People that come here…


Broadway to Require Patrons Show Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination

Theaters on Broadway in New York City will require audience members to wear masks and present proof of COVID-19 vaccination. All workers, including performers and backstage crew, are also being required to get COVID-19 shots. Under the new policy, patrons must present proof that they’ve gotten a vaccine authorized by the Food and Drug Administration…


Joey Chestnut Sets New Record at Post-Pandemic Hot Dog Race

NEW YORK—Chowdown champ Joey “Jaws” Chestnut broke his own record to gulp to a 14th win in the men’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Sunday, while Michelle Lesco took the women’s title. Chestnut downed 76 franks and buns in 10 minutes. That’s one more than he did in setting the men’s record last…


Hot Dog! NYC Marks July 4 With Eating Contest, Fireworks

NEW YORK—After a year lost to the coronavirus, New York City’s most well-known Fourth of July traditions are back. The traditional Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks show will be back in full form with a display over the East River, with shells being shot from five barges in a televised, choregraphed spectacle. This year, crowds…


15 Months Later, Radio City Reopens With Dave Chappelle

NEW YORK—Fifteen months after shuttering for the pandemic, New York’s Radio City Music Hall reopened its doors Saturday for the Tribeca Festival premiere of a new Dave Chappelle documentary for a full-capacity, fully-vaccinated audience. The debut of “Dave Chappelle: This Time This Place,” which chronicles Chappelle’s pandemic stand-up series held in rural Ohio cornfields, marked…