Pop-up bar scene, tanning salon test shutdown rules in NYC Restaurants remain closed for table and bar service in New York CityNEW YORK -- What passes for a pandemic-era speakeasy these days in New York City isn’t secret at all. “It’s better than nothing.”The pop-up bar scene should be viewed as a test run for the official reopening, said Paul Denamiel, owner of the French restaurant Le Rivage, where three bar tables sat lined up along a curb. Andrew Cuomo has given the green light to some upstate New York businesses to reopen with social-distancing and mask-wearing protocols. Not so in New York City, the national epicenter still reeling from more than 20,000 deaths. Until then, the New York Police Department has been tasked with visiting thousands of restaurants and small non-essential businesses each day to make sure they’re following the shutdown rules.

Source: ABC News May 30, 2020 12:48 UTC