De Blasio expands outdoor dining seating after Gov. Cuomo criticism
(World News USA)

City Hall hopes to boost the Big Apple’s ailing restaurant business by allowing restaurants and bars that serve food to set up tables and chairs on streets closed for social distancing, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday. The initiative comes a day after Hizzoner and Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced they were pausing plans to allow indoor dining starting next week because of fears it could help fuel another coronavirus outbreak — and the lack of enforcement of social distancing and mask-wearing rules. “We could not go ahead with indoor dining given everything we`ve seen around the city,” de Blasio told reporters at his daily briefing. “We have to...