Five blocks away at the consulate, friends Katie O’Brien, 38, and Lauren Meyer, 39, showed up armed with hand cleaners, hot water bottles and hand warmers to slip into their gloves. They were glad to hear that the restaurant provided blankets, which they wrapped themselves while drinking wine at a table near the entrance. When the burgers appeared, they took off their gloves and put them back on between the bites.
“I decided if I wanted to go out, I had to accept that it was going to be cold,” she said. O’Brien said who celebrated her birthday.
The two looked to more than a dozen restaurants for seats that were not enclosed and offered enough space between tables and wanted to be as safe as possible.
Many boarders are in the minds of social people while being careful as the number of coronavirus cases in New York increases. While the boom was not as devastating as the city that experienced last spring, the death toll rose slowly to about 60 people a day during January, with more than 50 zip codes in the five districts showing a positive test rate of more than ten percentage.
The city also struggled with a slow vaccination of vaccines. In New York, where about 8.5 million people live, only 532,000 first doses were administered. Recently, a shortage of vaccines has forced health officials to move scheduled appointments to a later date.
Yet New Yorkers want to get out. In Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Maria Myrtil examined Sweet Brooklyn Bar & Grill to see if it had security protocols in place before making a reservation Sunday to sit with friends in a small plastic cage, like a small closet .
Myrtil, 28, approved the layout, which includes a table heater. However, she adapted her approach to ordering.