{"id":50681,"date":"2020-08-20T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-eateries-plan-lawsuit-to-force-cuomo-de-blasio-to-allow-indoor-dining\/"},"modified":"2020-08-20T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T18:29:00","slug":"nyc-eateries-plan-lawsuit-to-force-cuomo-de-blasio-to-allow-indoor-dining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-eateries-plan-lawsuit-to-force-cuomo-de-blasio-to-allow-indoor-dining\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC eateries plan lawsuit to force Cuomo, de Blasio to allow indoor dining"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC eateries plan lawsuit to force Cuomo, de Blasio to allow indoor dining<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 20, 2020 |<\/span> 2:29pm |<\/span> Updated August 20, 2020 | 2:40pm<\/span><\/p>\n

\n A coalition of 100 Staten Island and Brooklyn restaurants are planning a class action lawsuit to force the city and state to reopen indoor dining in New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like the government is moving the goal posts,\u201d said Thomas Casatelli, who owns four restaurants in the two boroughs including the self-described \u201ctaco joint\u201d Ho\u2019Brah in Bay Ridge and West Brighton.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were supposed to be open July 6, now we\u2019re hearing from the mayor we can\u2019t open until there\u2019s a vaccine. Who knows when that will be,\u201d Casatelli said Thursday at a Staten Island press conference with other restaurateurs, their lawyers and local elected officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe business owners that are here today, they did what they were told to do. They did what they had to do to help flatten the curve,\u201d said Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis at the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe met the metrics so why are we being discriminated against as a municipality?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s positive testing rate is under 1 percent and every other county in the state allows indoor dining at partial capacity.<\/p>\n

Indoor dining was part of Phase Three of Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s coronavirus reopening plan. New York City entered that phase in early July, but the governor and the mayor have only allowed outdoor dining within the five boroughs.<\/p>\n

De Blasio said during a City Hall press conference Thursday there\u2019s no timetable to fully reopen local restaurants because \u201cwe have to see a lot more improvement in fighting this virus.\u201d Earlier this week, de Blasio said indoor dining might not return until there\u2019s a coronavirus vaccine.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are putting together a class action lawsuit on behalf of the Staten Island and Bay Ridge restaurant owners against the mayor, against the governor on the basis of they\u2019ve completely exceeded their authority and stepped on the Constitution of the United States,\u201d Lou Gelormino, attorney for the eateries, said at the press conference.<\/p>\n

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His co-counsel, Mark Fonte, said the suit will be filed in Staten Island Supreme Court within the next two weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat put the restaurateurs over the edge was [the mayor\u2019s] announcement the other day that there will be no indoor dining until there\u2019s a vaccine. Enough is enough. These restaurant owners simply can\u2019t afford to shut down for the winter season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Andrew Rigie, head of the NYC Hospitality Alliance, is not a party to the suit, but also doesn\u2019t oppose the legal action.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re are reviewing our options and we will review this lawsuit. We still hope to work cooperatively with Governor Cuomo to open restaurants up indoors, but as I said yesterday, many restaurant owners have had enough and now the court may have to decide this issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate it had to get to this point,\u201d Rigie said.<\/p>\n

His surveyed city eateries and found that 83 percent couldn\u2019t make their full rent in July.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the mayor declined to comment on potential litigation and referred to de Blasio\u2019s recent remarks on the issue.<\/p>\n

Reps for the governor did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Nolan Hicks<\/em>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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