De Blasio May Extend Outdoor Dining Past Halloween

The New York Post reports:

Get ready to bundle up for al fresco dining in the late fall. Mayor Bill de Blasio is considering extending the city’s coronavirus-induced outdoor dining program beyond its current endpoint of Oct. 31. “We’re looking at that right now. We’re trying to get a sense from the restaurant community how much interest there is in going longer,” he said at a City Hall press briefing Thursday.

“There’s definitely openness on our part to going longer if we think it will contribute something,” he added. De Blasio promised to re-evaluate the possibility of restarting indoor dining in a month or so — after saying he had no plan to fully reopen restaurants because it’s linked to COVID-19 outbreaks around the globe, even though every other part of the state allows it.