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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that starting Wednesday the state will adopt CDC guidance letting vaccinated people mostly dispense with masks and social distancing, allowing the Knicks and Nets to offer fully-vaccinated fan sections at the NBA playoffs in the city’s biggest reopening bid since the pandemic hit. Over…

UPDATE, with Broadway League & Equity responses New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that state-mandated capacity restrictions in New York City will be lifted May 19, including Broadway theaters. While acknowledging that a Spring reopening is unlikely for Broadway due to the logistics of mounting…

Capacity restrictions on New York City movie theaters – now at 33% — will be lifted on May 19 but six-foot social distancing rules won't — a somewhat confusing edict set out earlier Monday by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Break out the measuring sticks. Cuomo rarely mentions movie theaters and didn't specifically today but…

New York State's just signed fiscal 2022 mega-budget includes a $1 billion package – a combination of grants and tax credits — for small businesses including arts, entertainment and restaurant to help speed economic recovery. The Covid-19 Pandemic Small Business Recovery Grant Program steers $800 million in funding…

UPDATED: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) called Friday evening for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign, the highest profile calls yet for the embattled governor to step down – something he insisted earlier in the day he has no intention of doing but will wait for the…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has generally taken a conservative approach to managing Covid-19 in the state, has raised eyebrows by backing a plan to let fans attend a Buffalo Bills playoff game next month. Up to 6,772 fans will be permitted at the game, which will be played on January 9 or 10 (depending on the…

New York City will be open for TV and movie crews to film as of Monday, entering the “Phase 4” of the plan to reopen facilities and services shuttered by the pandemic. NYC was cleared Friday for the phase, but with some restrictions still in place. There will be no indoor dining, and malls and museums remain…

UPDATED at 1pm PT with more details from MTV, Barclays officials New York City, which was the initial global epicenter of COVID-19, will host the MTV Video Music Awards on August 30 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed the date and venue Monday during one of his regular briefings about the…

EXCLUSIVE: Despite recent, scattered press reports suggesting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was snubbing Broadway by shutting the industry out of his New York Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board, the state and the theater industry are working closely on how to re-start, Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League…

As many as one in five residents of New York City appear to have tested positive for antibodies to the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today. If the preliminary results prove correct, approximately 1.7 million New Yorkers have been exposed to the virus and survived. The larger-than-anticipated figure…

Pandemic deaths declined in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo said in his daily briefing. But he cautioned, "Happy days are not here again." The governor reported 540 deaths in the last 24 hours at his daily press briefing in Albany. "That is still an overwhelming number every day." Still, the tally is down 110 deaths…

With film and TV production booming in New York, the state has implemented a diversity job training development fund aimed at the entertainment industry, calling it the first of its kind in the U.S.  Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said he fund will initially provide $1.05 million per year. It was passed as part of a…