NYC Reopens

“I Can’t Survive Until October”: NYC Restaurants Fear Delay to Indoor Dining

As virus cases surge in states reopening bars and restaurants, NYC’s indoor dining plan is now up in the air. Here’s what restaurateurs have to say. 

Servers wearing protective masks assist customers at tables outside of the Boucherie restaurant in the West Village neighborhood of New York.

Photographer: Christopher Occhicone/Bloomberg

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Editor’s Note: No city is more important to America’s economy than New York, and none has been hit harder by the coronavirus. “NYC Reopens” examines life in the capital of capitalism as the city takes its first halting steps toward a new normal.

It looks as if New Yorkers might have to wait a little longer to book a table inside their favorite restaurant.