[ April 25, 2024 ]
Good. Political tyrants Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo must not be allowed to destroy the livelihoods of thousands of people in New York City. It is a disgrace that it has come to this, in what was once the worlds greatest city. The Republican Party must find the right candidate to take on the Left in New York City’s next mayoral election in 2021.
NYC Restaurants Sue Cuomo, De Blasio For $2 Billion Over Indoor Dining Ban
By Forbes, September 3, 2020
Story continues below advertisementRestaurants in New York City filed a $2 billion class-action lawsuit against city and state officials on Thursday, alleging the indoor dining ban caused “irreparable harm” to the city’s food and beverage industry and pushing for the return to indoor dining — the lawsuit marks the latest attempt to normalize the city through legal action.
KEY FACTS
Il Bacco, an Italian restaurant in Queens, is spearheading a class-action lawsuit against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and New York Attorneys General to force the state to allow indoor dining and for damages lost during Covid-19 guidelines.
Over 350 restaurants have signed on to the $2 billion lawsuit.
Il Bacco is only 500 feet from the Nassau County border, where restaurants have been able to serve indoors at 50% capacity since June 24.
New York City is the only city in the state where some form of indoor dining is still not allowed, despite a weeks-long statewide case positive rate below 1%.
In mid-August, 1,500 gym owners across New York filed a class-action lawsuit against the state which led to gyms, fitness centers, and yoga studios opening their doors at 33% capacity just a few weeks later.
In May, a Brooklyn nursing student who had been arrested twice for violating the state’s ban on nonessential gatherings while protesting outside City Hall in New York City, filed a federal lawsuit against Cuomo alleging the ban violated her First Amendment rights, which lead to the governor lifting the ban on protests and easing the guidelines on nonessential gatherings, just in time for Memorial Day.
KEY BACKGROUND
On Monday both Cuomo and de Blasio acknowledged the pressure that New York City restaurants are facing, but neither have said when, or under what circumstances, indoor dining in the city could resume. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday that restaurants in the state could open at 25% capacity, exacerbating the situation, with Cuomo admitting that New York City restaurants were now at a “competitive disadvantage” since diners could cross a bridge or tunnel and eat in New Jersey. “I want as much economic activity as quickly as possible, we also want to make sure transmission rate stays under control. That is the tension,” Cuomo said at a press conference. De Blasio said Monday that restaurants in the city deserve a timeline at the very least, and hopes a plan will be set in September, but admitted that the decision wasn’t in his hands, but in Cuomo’s.
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24 Comments
3 years ago
WELL YOU NEW YAWKERS’ VOTED FOR THEM,…… NOW SWALLOW !!!!
3 years ago
New York has thrown away 20,000 hospital beds, complicating coronavirus fight
New York has lost a staggering 20,000 hospital beds over the last two decades to budget cuts and insurance overhauls, complicating local and state efforts to battle the coronavirus, according to records and experts.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/17/new-york-has-thrown-away-20000-hospital-beds-complicating-coronavirus-fight/
3 years ago
Been posting this meme when appropriate, and that’s been quite a few times lately. These shut downs are part of the dem strategy to somehow (makes no sense to me) make Trump look bad to his supporters. They don’t care about anyone. The only thing they care about is power and control to rule over everyone, not to serve, but to rule.
3 years ago
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
anonQ
This is precisely why Trump needs to stop wearing that stupid mask at any time.
It is why he needs to point out that this virus is NOT “deadly.”
As long as he even partially buys into this he will give them fuel.
3 years ago
Reply to
anonQ
DEMOCRATS = COMMUNISTS.
They are very poor LIARS, they can’t seem to get their fabrications the same.
3 years ago
The mayor of Philly lock downs / closes restaurants, then caught eating indoors at a Maryland restaurant.. no mask. No social distancing..
3 years ago
The mayor of Philly lock downs / closes restaurants, then caught eating indoors at a Maryland restaurant.. no mask. No social distancing..
3 years ago
Gee, how come restaurants in Nassau county can operate at 50% (arbitrary number?), while gyms and fitness centers in NYC can operate at 33%? I guess, it’s better to over eat, than to exercise.
3 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
You must bend over and worship the Cuomo/DeBlazio gods. They know what’s best for you.
They want to keep you safe from thinking, prosperity, your rights and freedom.
They know you can’t handle that. Besides that , it’s UNAFAIR if you do better than someone else.
Sarcasm off.
3 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
As a guess, you are sweating toxins and breathing harder at gyms and fitness centers.
Let us not allow into the equation the particular people and health of those person’s who go to gyms and fitness centers.
3 years ago
I hope it can be successful. We need a win against the virus tyrants.
3 years ago
stolen from the tweeter…
So if I understand correctly, I can transmit # COVID19 just by speaking through micro droplets, but to find out if I have covid, they have to put an 8 inch qtip in my brain. #logic
3 years ago
what is the end game with this scum, debizarro and cuomo. apparently they are determined to kill new york. killing the small businesses killing the middle class killing the upper middle class killing the working class and of course the elderly whenever they have the opportunity as in the case of cuomo the nursing home killer.
3 years ago
This, as well as the bans on public schools and everything else will continue as long as the Trump administration buys into the nonsense that this virus is “deadly,” spreads on surfaces, and transmits from asymptomatic people and from people who have no evidence of the disease.
$hit rolls downhill! And as long as Trump even partially buys into this nonsense it will continue. I fear that by supporting this push to develop a vaccine he has already passed the point of no return. We do not need a vaccine for the entire population.
3 years ago
I assume Covid-19 has been specifically used to destroy small business across most of the USA. Glad to see some people finally fighting back. Bullies don’t back down unless you make them back down.
3 years ago
I hope the law suit is won and Fredo, aka Meat Ball has to pay money out of his own pocket!
3 years ago
3 years ago
No one, not the State, not the county, has the “authority” to shut a private business down.
You “safety” is up to you and NO ONE, except yourself, your mother, and God Almighty, has the “authority” to tell you what you may, or may not, do to “keep yourself ‘safe’ “.
Take of your “sheep suits”, stand up on your hind feet, and tell them “Hell No”.
Arm up and defend yourselves against the WANTON TYRANNY of those who would oppress you under “Color of Law” …. don’t know what that is? LOOK IT UP. While you’re at it, read the Organic Laws of this REPUBLIC (it ain’t no democracy) …. oh, you don’t know what the Organic Laws of this Republic are …. LOOK IT UP
3 years ago
I know FREDO’s a MURDERER, but I wanted to take him fishing before he went away, Fredo call me.
