Some bar and restaurant owners are occasionally faced with an uncomfortable task: telling people it is illegal to dance in their establishments.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
The New York State Liquor Authority is no longer requiring businesses to answer questions about whether customers will be allowed to dance in their establishments
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For those applying for liquor licenses, the question about customers dancing is no longer required. But it\u2019s a bit more complicated for people who already have conditions in place
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Andrew Rigie, the executive director of the New York Hospitality Alliance, worked to get this rule overturned. He told NY1 dancing is “a way people express themselves. It’s culturally relevant. It’s economically relevant. So it was a really important win”<\/p>\n
Ana Prince, the owner of Taqueria \u201cEl Patron\u201d Mexican Grill, says telling customers they cannot dance is \u201cawkward.\u201d She owns four bars and restaurants in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
But all of that is changing as the New York State Liquor Authority is no longer requiring businesses to answer questions about whether customers will be allowed to dance in their establishments.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are a Guatemalan restaurant, and dancing is part of our culture. So people were asking, like, you know, are you guys gonna have any Guatemalan nights with music traditional from Guatemala so we can dance, and we were like, \u2018no.\u2019 We\u2019re not allowed to do that. But now we\u2019re happy that we\u2019re going to be allowed to have people dancing in our businesses,\u201d Prince told NY1.<\/p>\n
Customers at one of Prince\u2019s bars think dancing would be a blast.<\/p>\n
Brenda White, who says she comes to Taqueria \u201cEl Patron\u201d Mexican Grill four times a week, said she would love to dance at the bar.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s much more fun to have dancing in a place,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n
For those applying for liquor licenses, the question about customers dancing is no longer required. But it\u2019s a bit more complicated for people like Price who already have conditions in place.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf a business currently does have a stipulation stating no dancing, they need to go to the state liquor authority and file what they call a method of operation change,\u201d Andrew Rigie, the executive director of the New York Hospitality Alliance, said.<\/p>\n
He worked to get this rule overturned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been fighting for decades now to get the dance police out of our city\u2019s restaurants, bars and nightclubs,\u201d Rigie said. \u201cIt\u2019s a way people express themselves. It\u2019s culturally relevant. It\u2019s economically relevant. So it was a really important win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gov. Kathy Hochul is supportive of the change. In a statement, she wrote: \u201cNew York\u2019s hospitality industry is unmatched, and our restaurants, bars and nightlife are a big part of what makes our communities so vibrant. By eliminating this antiquated restriction on dancing, we\u2019re making it easier for businesses to succeed and for New Yorkers and visitors alike to experience the energy and excitement that define our state.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Brooklyn, Prince is looking forward to welcoming dancing in her businesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cNew York City is one of the most vibrant and alive cities in the world. So dancing, you know, is part of our culture and that\u2019s what brings communities together,\u201d Prince said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some bar and restaurant owners are occasionally faced with an uncomfortable task: telling people it is illegal to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[25,98,100,99,3691,9,24,12,63,27],"class_list":["post-247208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-emma-barnett","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}