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Mets, Yankees offering free tickets to those who get COVID vaccine at stadiums, B’way coming back in September

  • Cuomo: Mets, Yankees offering tickets for COVID vaccinations
    “We call that a New York home run” Cuomo said Cuomo: Mets, Yankees offering tickets for COVID vaccinations
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“We call that a New York home run,” Cuomo said during a press briefing at his Manhattan office, where he was joined by top brass from both teams. “You’re going to the game anyway. It’s on your way. Stop and get a vaccine.”

 

Broadway will be back this fall and baseball fans can get free tickets to a Yankees or Mets game if they get vaccinated against COVID at either of the team’s ballparks, Gov. Cuomo announced on Wednesday.

The ticket incentive was coupled with a major shift in seating at both Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, which will see new capacity limits and separate sections for vaccinated spectators and those who have yet to be immunized.

“We call that a New York home run,” Cuomo said during a press briefing at his Manhattan office, where he was joined by top brass from both teams. “You’re going to the game anyway. It’s on your way. Stop and get a vaccine.”

The doses available at the stadiums will be the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the governor said.

The new rules allow vaccinated fans, as well as their children under age 16, to sit in special seating sections at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field in the Bronx and Flushing, respectively. The fans would still be required to wear face coverings.

Unvaccinated fans attending the games will be seated in sections with a 33% occupancy limit and a six-foot social distance rule. 

Further, fans will be offered a COVID-19 vaccine at the stadiums, and those taking the shot will receive a free ticket to a game, Cuomo said.

"It's on your way. Stop and get your vaccine," he added. 

The move comes after New York, New Jersey and Connecticut officials announced occupancy limits would be lifted for restaurants, theaters, retail stores and other businesses beginning May 19.