New Yorkers ready to party again -- just not indoors

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Yesenia Herra celebrates her daughter's first birthday outdoors in Central Park

After 14 months of lockdown and 制限s, New Yorkers can now enjoy a city where most of these 制限s have been 解除するd.

But many have 保持するd the 用心深い approach they 可決する・採択するd at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, and are hesitant about partying and returning to the social life they enjoyed "before."

Yesenia Herra, 33, who 組織するs dinners and special events for tourists and who "loves to go out," last 週末 had her first party since March 2020, 招待するing around twenty friends and family to celebrate her daughter's first birthday.

For the safety of her guests, almost all of whom are fully vaccinated, she 組織するd the get-together outdoors in Central Park, with 倍のing （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するs and 議長，司会を務めるs, balloons tied to tree 支店s, and enough food to 料金d an army.

"I didn't celebrate or do a baby にわか雨. I didn't do like a welcome home when we got out of the hospital unfortunately because of the pandemic," she told AFP.

"And so this is my first 祝賀 for her and I really 手配中の，お尋ね者 to do it with my family and friends and you know, I know she might not remember it but I want her to know that this did happen," she said.

While her guests seemed delighted to be together, many pointed out that they did not want to 招待する people to their homes yet -- except for very の近くに friends who they would be sure have been vaccinated.

"I don't know if we'll ever go 支援する to 完全にする 慰安 with that... not in the 即座の 未来," said Merry Mathes, 58.

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さらに先に into the park, Marcus, a 25-year-old vaccinated paralegal, was partying と一緒に a dozen friends, with a synth and a 雇うd DJ.

He has only been to two parties since March 2020, both of them outdoors: one, which was 限られた／立憲的な to 10 people, was for his best friend's wedding, and the other was in Central Park in 早期に May.

"I am not ready for parties inside, but maybe in the 落ちる," he said.

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"商売／仕事 is 選ぶing up, it started last week," said Lemuel Rodrigues, a party 蓄える／店 経営者／支配人 in Manhattan.

"Most people are having it at home, or in parks, with other family members that they know," he said.

People gather in Central Park in New York with many hesitant about partying and returning to the social life they enjoyed 'before'

Even though his 商売／仕事 is still idling, he 賞賛するd the continued 警告を与える of his 顧客s: にもかかわらず 60 パーセント of the city's adult 全住民 having received at least one dose of the ワクチン, many New Yorkers continue to wear masks on the streets, even though that 規則 was 解除するd at the end of April.

"A lot of people just want to go 支援する to normal real 急速な／放蕩な. And we are more 気が進まない here. Can you imagine if this started to come up again?"

Such 警告を与える has 上げるd 商売／仕事 for by Amanda Orso, who 組織するs small-規模 parties, usually at homes.

In 最近の weeks, she has been asked to throw several small 集会s by people keen to celebrate "just 存在 vaccinated" -- with some nods to the pandemic, like drinks served in 洗浄器／皮下注射／浣腸器s.

Laurence Anthony, 36, a motivational （衆議院の）議長 and writer, was の中で the first, 支援する in April, to request her services: After more than a year of abstinence, he 招待するd 10 people, all vaccinated, to brunch in his Harlem apartment to celebrate his newfound 免疫 and his new digs.

"It was 肉親，親類d of an 適切な時期 to 反映する and to 認める... the importance of connecting" after the pandemic, he said.

In 中央の-May, he went to an indoor party that brought together some 50 people. "It was the first event I have been to where I didn't know the 大多数 of the people," he said.

People gather in Central Park in New York on May 22, 2021 even though 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s and restaurants have been 許すd to open at 十分な capacity for several days