New York restricts park access to ensure social distance

This weekend, NYPD will restrict entry to two city parks, which, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio, were "more crowded than they should be." This decision was made to ensure compliance with social distance to stop the spread of coronavirus, writes New York Post.

Limitations will be introduced at Domino Park in Williamsburg (Brooklyn), and at Pier 45 and 46 of the Hudson River Park in Manhattan.

“There were more people in some of the parks last weekend than they should have,” de Blasio said.

The city will restrict entry to the parks “in several places where there were special problems.” These restrictions will be introduced on an experimental basis.

The Hudson River Park will limit the number of people who can be in any particular place at the same time.

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New York City police will limit the number of visitors to the park, as well as give out free face masks as part of another city initiative and make sure that the number of people in green areas is not "too high." However, the mayor did not specify how many people are meant by this concept. De Blasio noted that if too many people gather in the park, the police will ask some of them to leave.

In a slightly different way, law enforcement officers will act in Domino Park. People simply will not be allowed in there, exceeding the capacity of the park in conditions of social distance.

As ForumDaily New York wrote earlier, many people gathered in the city parks over the weekend, as a result, the police wrote dozens of fines for violations of social distance.