The mandate, known as "Key to NYC Pass," will begin being "enforced" on September 18.
Earlier today (April 29) NYC's Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city is set to fully reopen on July 1. After over a year of COVID restrictions, quarantining, and sacrifices that the city's citizens have made, the mayor seemed hopeful that by this summer NYC will be able to lift all its restrictions.
Tami Treadwell, 57, a grieving widow and owner of Harlem Seafood Soul, cried out in anguish as she explained it would take hours or days for someone to retrieve her husband's body after he died of coronavirus complications.