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Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened Wednesday to shut down playgrounds if New Yorkers failed to properly distance themselves during the coronavirus crisis.
“No close contact sports in a playground,” Cuomo said during a press conference.”No basketball, for example. You cannot do it.”
He urged all New Yorkers to voluntarily adjust their behavior at playgrounds to keep the levels of social density at advisable levels.
“If there is noncompliance with that, we will then make it mandatory and we will actually close the playgrounds,” he warned.