City Living, Midtown, Policy

Broadway will drop mask mandate for month of July

Masks will no longer be required at all of Broadway’s 41 theaters next month, the Broadway League announced Tuesday. Starting July 1, masks will be optional for audiences at shows. The League said masking protocols for August and beyond will be reviewed on a monthly basis, with an updated decision made in mid-July. While masks will not be required, audience members are still encouraged to wear them.

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Policy, Transportation

MTA keeps mask mandate for NYC subway, despite lift of federal requirement on mass transit

Photo by Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit on Flickr

While mask mandates are being lifted in public transit systems around the country, New Yorkers should expect to wait a little longer to ride the subway unmasked. According to a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the agency will require masks to be worn throughout the subway, bus, Metro-North, and Long Island Rail Road systems, despite a recent ruling from a federal judge striking down the national mask mandate for airplanes, trains, buses, and other forms of mass transit.

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Policy

NYC school mask mandate will continue for children under five

Image courtesy of Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office

New York City public school students under the age of five will need to continue wearing masks even though the city’s mask mandate in public schools will be lifted on March 7, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday. Children under the age of five are still ineligible for vaccination.

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