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Businesses shut in effort to contain virus in NYC hot spots

by Associated Press
| October 8, 2020 8:30 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of businesses and schools in New York City neighborhoods where coronavirus cases have spiked were closed Thursday by order of the governor, but questions swirled about how effectively officials could enforce the shutdown in areas where it has been met with resentment.

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