🌱 Times Square Vaccines + Outdoor Dining Plan | NYC Daily

Happy Wednesday! If you want to pack yourself into Times Square with hundreds of thousands of strangers from all around the world this New Year's Eve, you'd better make sure you're vaccinated against COVID-19. In fact, the city won't let you into the party without proof that you are. Read the details below.

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First, today's weather:

Milder. High: 56 Low: 52.

Here are the top stories in New York City today:

1. Times Square revelers this New Year's Eve have to proof that they've had the COVID-19 shot (New York City Patch)
2. Some sanitation workers have been suspended for falsely claiming to be vaccinated to get around the city's mandate, reports say (New York City Patch)
3. A woman has been riding the subway for hours in hopes of finding her lost husband (Patch)
4. The people who fled NYC during the height of COVID are coming back (Gothamist)
5. Art from Pompeii is coming to NYC in 2021 (Time Out New York Kids)
6. Con Ed details ‘favorite method of scammers’ as clever crooks prey on NYC customers (silive.com)
7. How to watch the full blood lunar eclipse (New York City Patch)
8. Despite the haters, NYC is a step closer to a permanent outdoor dining plan (Eater NY)

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About me: Adam Nichols is in charge of New York City coverage at Patch and currently oversees our 36 (and growing) neighborhoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Previously he was Senior Editor at DNAinfo, helping build that website from inception into a leading local news source. Adam has worked at the New York Post, the New York Daily News and daily regional newspapers in the United Kingdom, as well as teaching a hyperlocal news course at Seton Hall University.

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