DeBlasio is destroying small businesses and the entire city. Shame on him - he should resign. 32 staff members and a lovely family hurting for something that can be easily rectified. Shame, shame, shame DeBlahBlah.... — michael C on Da Claudio’s outdoor dining is closed by the city

I was a liberal until I got mugged four times while driving a yellow cab back in the '70s. The way things are headed in NYC right now that liberal turned conservative might be you. Back to the future thanks to da mayor. — lowrider on Nosy Neighbor: When will the USPS clean the Canal Street post office?

Difference between NYC and CT, LI, and upstate is that NYC is way much denser. — JOR on Recent openings around the neighborhood

Your complaint resonates with me. May I suggest that if you're on Twitter, you post it there as well, tagging CM Chin? Her Twitter account is @CM_MargaretChin. Let us know what ensues. Thx. — Komanoff on Da Claudio’s outdoor dining is closed by the city

When our favorite Chinese, China Chalet on lower Broadway, closed we began a search to find a replacement. On the recommendation of neighbors from Tribeca Citizen we tried China Blue. Once was all it took. Food was at best sub par, prices high, portions small. Huge disappointment. The quest continues. — V. Stewart on China Blue has closed permanently

I agree with you tiered approach to indoor dining, if you disagree with school openings then you must see a flawed approach to strategy. My dislike for the Mayor comes from his actions that don't involve NYS oversight, things like homeless encampments being allowed, no answer to rising violent crime, no response to quality of life issues, city filthier everyday. Police cut at the knees.I am born and raised in NYC and it sure looks like the glorious 70's to me again thanks to your hero Mayor no doubt. — S on Recent openings around the neighborhood

Such sad news! Park preschool was an amazing school with exceptional faculty and such a warm environment. Our family has so many special childhood memories from our years there. — Jill on Park Preschool is closing permanently after 31 years

Schools are essential - restaurants are not. You do not HAVE TO dine inside a restaurant, you can dine outdoors in front of one, picnic or eat outside wherever, order in, pick up, or cook. Dining out is a luxury if not a privilege. I don't think schools should reopen yet either. I'm confused by the the Mayor dislike and hate. Moron? Who is only following orders from the hero Cuomo? I think a lot of you out there mistakenly think he has executive powers immune to state authority - he has none or at least none re: this pandemic. NYC isn't a state within a state. My theory is the state and city see three states leapfrog it in cases and figures if it ain't broke don't fix it. If the infection rate is 1% or less through say next month ok open indoor dining at 25%. Same through October? 50%. November 75%. See how 75% works for awhile from there. We all will have to wait longer and yes, you all are harping on business and workers more than lives, and you sound like Trump. He doesn't have a clue - you all do. Be smart like Dr.Fauci not stupid like Trump and his yes man robot Pence who had 1000 attendees all huddled together for his hate and division rally last night. Btw 2 staff workers and 2 attendees got infected in Charlotte two nights ago. To give you an idea about how scary this disease is 53 of 67 attendees of an OUTDOOR wedding in RURAL MAINE got infected and one person who DIDN'T attend died from getting it. More could die. So forgive me if I don't want restaurants having indoor dining yet. I have some (I think) sensible ideas for indoor dining I'll post later. Stay tuned. — Excuse me? on Recent openings around the neighborhood

I don't believe anyone is putting money and business ahead of lives certainly not privilege ahead of lives. i respect the science and rightfully so should continue to affect actions if not policy( agree on failed leadership) but guidelines that health officials and Cuomo (hero) and Mayor( moron) set out for partial indoor at 25% was 1% or less infection rate for 2 weeks, last I looked infection rate in NYS and NYC has been less than that for more than 2 weeks, it was 0.65% yesterday. this is with increased testing daily.The issue is lack of uniform policy, lack of attention and purpose from our mayor impacts lives in a different way. 300,000 restaurant workers have been out of work since March and mayor dismisses restaurants as a privilege, Not sure how you can open schools at full capacity and continue to say restaurants can't open indoors at 25% capacity. — S on Recent openings around the neighborhood

My son, who is now 33, started in the first class of 2 year olds at the Park Preschool. This is really a sad day. — Phyllis on Park Preschool is closing permanently after 31 years

Where is CM Chin in all of this? She seemingly isn't advocating for any of the issue sof the day from the Chinatown night market idea, to the NYPD blocking off public space by the precincts / City Hall Park, to DOT's constant incompetence on outdoor dining. I have tried calling her office a few times (including this morning) and no one answers. — DB on Da Claudio’s outdoor dining is closed by the city

I cringe anytime I have to visit this post office. Not because of the way it looks but because of the nasty employees who have zero interest in helping the public. I can't tell you how many times I've left in frustration. Most of the employees are horrible. — BT on Nosy Neighbor: When will the USPS clean the Canal Street post office?

What a sad day...Park Preschool taught all three of my children - including my oldest who is a freshman in college! We had many of the same teachers over the years and I will remember them all fondly. Such a shame.... — Barbara on Park Preschool is closing permanently after 31 years

Some of you need to be checked. Like the time x amount of you were whining on here about kids selling candy bars at Greenwich and Duane Streets. So what? They're harmless. Leave them alone. They're also not white which is why you all complained. Because you don't want non-white children in your self-imagined white utopia. White children selling lemonade, cookies, and toys along Washington Market Park fence good. Non-white children selling Kit Kat bars? Complain and in some peoles' cases SNITCH on them cuz your kids and friend's kids sell stuff. I have HAD IT with the white grievance in TC comments, and I say that as a middle-aged white man. Save that for letters to the New York Post and Daily News. I mean hey write it and further embarrass yourself but expect to be called out for it. This grafitti? Get on whoever to clean it up sure but spare me the election and protected class nonsense then crying over being called out for politicizing it and using it as an excuse to racist dogwhistle or peddle tropes. — Excuse me? on Nosy Neighbor: When will the USPS clean the Canal Street post office?

Policy in NY including NYC is executed based on health professionals' recommendations. I trust them more than your anectodal observations of CT, LI, etc. NYC is not CT. NYC was hit first after the few cases in WA. It has a much higher population density than CT, might even have more people than the entire state of CT in only 300 something square miles. NYC has the most cases and deaths of any major US city. Reducing future infections and deaths is more important than your damn privilege (not right) to done indoors, ok? The importance of saving lives over restaurants must not be trivialized. This Isn't about you ok? What matters to me is less infections and deaths til we get to zero. We're not "sorta" where we're at, we're where we are because we have a moron for a president with no plan because he has no clue or care but NY has ignored him to the tune of going from first in the nation with cases to fourth behind CA, TX, and FL. Other states don't cone close to the 20M or so people NY has to overtake NY so It's fourth place by default but who knows? Georgia is fifth and gaining. If COVID 19 cases increase because people like you have to dine onside a restaurant instead of outdoors when It's still warm enough yo, order in, or pick up there won't be any offices or tourists...like now. We're in the beginning or middle not the end of the second deadliest U.S. pandemic after the 1918 Spanish flu. Shame on you for caring more about business and money than people's lives. — Excuse me? on Recent openings around the neighborhood

Sounds like Trump derangement syndrome whereby he (and his supporters) get blamed for any problem. Might anyone around here blame the people who defaced the building in the first place? Or is that not possible since they might come from a "protected" class? — Lowrider on Nosy Neighbor: When will the USPS clean the Canal Street post office?

Why can't we look at the state of CT? It's a great example of a state that is effectively fully open that is effectively matching NYC's locked down numbers with no indoor dining (3.1/100k). Risk mitigation strategies obviously work for other places, even in the rest of NY state... and there are plenty of locations in NYC that can support social distanced seating. But we don't. And need I remind, healthcare professional do not set policy. They can only advise. That's sorta why the US is where it is right now. The importance of indoor dining is not to be trivialized. If you remove that, come December, there will be no restaurants left. Most of them are already walking that fine line. That may not matter to you, but if there are no restaurants, offices certainly won't reopen, tourists won't come, and we will experience an even worse economic downturn than we're in right now. — alee on Recent openings around the neighborhood

Contradictory. We have things under control here because of Cuomo and de Blasio. We sure wouldn't if we had Governor Molinaro and Mayor Malliotakis. — Excuse me? on Recent openings around the neighborhood

First off unlike you I monitor the daily infection rate in NYC and it is lower than CT. No one is talking about CT. Cuomo is the man and de Blasio is widely deferring to him. Second there's no indoor dining in NYC yet because health professionals which you are not one of have determined that is the correct course of action. Last I am sick of all the whining about not being able to find indoors. Cook, order in, pick up, and dine at outside seating. — Excuse me? on Recent openings around the neighborhood

You can look at Long Island, Fairfield County, CT, Westchester County, NY, etc. all with indoor dining programs and none of them are in a COVID tailspin. So it can't just be about safety. As for conspiracy theories, I dunno... the rest of NY state is certainly benefitting financially by being in "new normal" mode for a while. The optics are good for Cuomo outside of NYC would be my guess. And rents dropping in NYC from the resident exodus means a potential economic reset of many neighborhoods, which BdB would a fan of. Add to that Cuomo and BdB hate each other, so it's potentially just a staring match at our expense. — alee on Recent openings around the neighborhood

Now Smithers/Buttons will have a chance to win instead of just griping when Sonia does. Good luck! — Charlotte on Where in Tribeca?

I'm curious, and this is a genuine question: what do you think the motives are? I am no fan of BdB, nor of Cuomo, but I am a fan of our city currently having things under control. I miss indoor dining and our old lives as much as anyone, but I'm willing now to be cautious to not re-live what we went through in March and April. — malcolm on Recent openings around the neighborhood

Agreed. Anyone that believes this is just about keeping NYers safe hasn't left their block since March. — alee on Recent openings around the neighborhood

Well it's clear that indoor dining can happen safely. CT has had it since June, and they're doing better than NY on their COVID stats. And of course, it needs to be pointed out again, NYC is the *ONLY* place in the state of NY where indoor dining is not offered. You can argue the same rhetoric that somehow we don't have the same space to support 50% capacity in NYC safely, but somehow they can measure safety and compliance for bowling alleys, but they can't do a restaurant inspection before allowing them to open? — alee on Recent openings around the neighborhood

not sure how you justify not allowing NYC restaurants at limited indoor capacity when it's allowed in Long Island. our infection rate has been super low for a while with real testing volume. Mr Mayors comment on restaurants being a rich persons activity shows he really either doesn't know or cares about the impact this has on NYC economy and peoples lives. Can't wait till he goes away but never forgotten as worst mayor in NYC history! — S on Recent openings around the neighborhood