#Cuomo press conference today update plus#

The kids can get very rambunctious very quickly. When you’re in the house with a number of young kids, the house can get very small very quickly. My kids are a little older, but I remember the old days. Now everybody is at home, and they’re at home with their kids. As you know, we’ve done a lot of work with the wineries and distilleries to grow that industry in New York, and I want to make sure we protect them. We will only allow it during this period of closure, but I think it will help those businesses. And again, the state liquor authority will change their rules to allow that.

Stay home and order from your favorite restaurant, order from your favorite bar, order from your favorite winery, order from whatever establishment that you were thinking of patronizing. So whatever you could get, whatever you could order in the bar or restaurant or distillery or winery, you can purchase through takeout, and we hope that goes a long way towards alleviating any economic hardship. They’ll have guidance up by 5:00 PM this evening that will allow bars, restaurants, distilleries to sell their products off premises. So the state liquor authority is going to change its rules. However, there is a silver lining for these establishments, because we’re also very aware of the economic consequences for these establishments. Theaters closing at 8:00 tonight until further notice.Īny bar or restaurant closes at 8:00 tonight. I know that’s a specific hardship for the people in this room, because I can all see your masterful shape, buff even. Gyms are closed, effective 8:00 PM tonight. On all these closings, they are all until further notice, and hopefully I can coordinate with the other governors so we can have this same opening period just the way we had the same closing period.

All casinos will be closed effective 8:00 PM tonight, and they will stay closed until further notice. If I close my casinos but New Jersey keeps their casinos open, you’re going to have the same problem. You can’t go do it in the state of New Jersey, and you can’t do it in the state of Connecticut.

#Cuomo press conference today update plus#

There will be no more gatherings of 50 plus people, so if you were hoping to plan a graduation party, you can’t do it in the state of New York. Many of you came to our regional meeting on marijuana laws, and I have a good relationship that I’ve developed with the surrounding governors, so we have actually deployed that here, and I just did a call with Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey and Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut, and we are adopting the same policies, so there is no benefit to try to shop New York versus Connecticut versus New Jersey. Luckily we have set a template where our regional states work together. “Well, then get the states to coordinate themselves.” Yes, very hard to do. I don’t want to have one set of rules here and a different set of rules in New Jersey, because then I close down the bars, you’ll get in the car, you’ll drive through New Jersey. Now we have people who are drinking and driving. Why? Because then many people will get in their car and they’ll drive to Connecticut to go to a bar, which is the last thing we want. If the federal government isn’t going to do what it should do, then the states have to try their best, right? And the best way is for me not only to have a uniform policy within the state of New York, but to the extent you can, cooperate with surrounding states so you all have a common set of practices, right? I don’t want to close down bars in New York, but Connecticut leaves the bars open. The federal government should put one position in place and coordinate it with the states. It’s one set of rules for the entire state, and it should be one set of rules for the entire nation, and that is the role of the federal government and national leadership, and it is lacking. So in New York, you cannot shop New York City versus Westchester versus Nassau versus Albany versus Schenectady. … with a different set of rules, and Rensselaer with another set of rules, people would be confused, and again, if you don’t like the rule, you get in your car, you drive 15 minutes, you’re in a different jurisdiction subject to a different set of rules.