A纽约市酒吧因其所有者屡次违抗州长安德鲁·科莫的命令而臭名昭著新冠肺炎(新型冠状病毒肺炎)在一名法官听到证据表明该酒吧在没有执照的情况下提供酒精饮料后，治安官的副手们封锁了限制措施。
周五，纽约州最高法院法官凯瑟琳·迪多梅尼科(Catherine DiDomenico)发布了一系列临时关闭令中的最新一项，此后，纽约治安官的副手们在斯塔滕岛的麦克公共屋门上扣上了挂锁。
在Facebook上的一份声明中，这家酒馆的总经理兼共同所有者丹尼·普雷斯蒂(Danny Presti)表示，他正在抵制切断其店铺大门锁以恢复业务的冲动。
普雷斯蒂说，他将等到4月9日他的下一次出庭，届时他的律师计划挑战宪法的合法性新冠肺炎(新型冠状病毒肺炎)命令库莫下令试图减缓病毒的传播。
普雷斯蒂说:“与此同时，如果我进去撬锁，这意味着我要进监狱——不仅仅是像以前一样被关在牢房里，这意味着莱克斯岛，在莱克斯呆30天。”。
史蒂夫·怀特/美联社档案
2020年12月1日，纽约市治安官代表站在麦克的公共屋外，此前共同所有者丹尼·普雷斯蒂在纽...
但很快，他和商业伙伴基思·麦卡勒尼计划继续在法庭上争吵。
普雷斯蒂说:“4月9日，我们为你而来，但这不会来得太快，因为这是我们最终可以说这些都不对的时候，我们的宪法权利被剥夺了，这些授权绝对荒谬，一年后我们还在这样做是荒谬的。”
该酒吧对该州新冠肺炎规则的持续蔑视，使该行业成为要求库莫结束其行政命令并完全开放该州业务的人们的避雷针。
12月初，酒吧关闭后，数百名酒吧老板的支持者在酒吧外面抗议，普雷斯特被捕。当时，当局声称秘密警长代表在那里喝酒。麦克的公共住宅所在的街区当时被科莫认为是一个有病毒风险的“橙色区域”，这意味着室内用餐是被禁止的。
吉纳·穆恩/路透社，文件
2020年12月2日，在纽约斯塔登岛的冠状病毒疾病(新冠肺炎)大流行中，苹果公司的公共大楼关...
在他被捕几天后，官员们声称普雷斯蒂用他的车撞了一名治安官的副手，当时他正试图逃离酒吧，在那里他再次向里面的顾客提供酒和食物。然后他再次被拘留。
一月份，一个大陪审团拒绝起诉普雷斯蒂。
酒吧老板和政府之间的长期不和始于去年11月，当时普雷斯蒂和麦卡勒尼因违反新冠肺炎行政命令继续营业而被吊销了酒类执照。
普雷斯蒂和麦卡勒尼试图宣布麦克的公共住宅为“自治区域”，在住宅内提供食物和酒精，但向顾客索要小费并告诉当局他们不受欢迎。
该酒吧的律师表示，去年12月，该市驳回了该酒吧的25份刑事传票，此前该酒吧尽管位于橙色区域，但仍开放室内用餐，并过了宵禁。
库莫在1月底取消了橙色区的授权。
New York bar infamous for defying COVID-19 lockdown laws padlocked by sheriff's deputies
ANew York City barinfamous for its owners repeatedly defying Gov. Andrew Cuomo'sCOVID-19restrictions was padlocked by sheriff's deputies after a judge heard evidence that it was serving alcohol without a license -- again.
New York Sheriff's deputies slapped padlocks on the doors of Mac's Public House in Staten Island on Friday after New York State Supreme Court Justice Catherine DiDomenico issued the latest in a series of temporary closure orders.
In a statement on Facebook, Danny Presti, the tavern's general manager and co-owner, said he was resisting the urge to cut the locks off his establishment's doors to resume business.
Presti said he will wait for his next court date on April 9, when his lawyers plan to challenge the constitutionality of theCOVID-19mandates Cuomo ordered in an attempt to blunt the spread of the virus.
"In the meantime, if I go in and clip the lock, it means I go to jail -- not just like thrown in a holding cell like before, it means Rikers Island, 30 days in Rikers," Presti said.
But Presti said he and business partner Keith McAlarney plan to keep fighting in court.
"April 9, we're coming for you, and it can't come soon enough because this is finally the time when we get to say that none of this is right, that our constitutional rights have been taken away, that these mandates are absolutely ridiculous and it's absurd that a year later we're still doing this," Presti said.
The bar's ongoing defiance of the state's COVID-19 rules has made the business a lightning rod for people demanding that Cuomo end his executive orders and completely open up the state for business.
In early December, several hundred supporters of the bar owners protested outside the watering hole after it was shut down and Presti was arrested. At the time, authorities alleged that undercover sheriff's deputies were served alcohol there. The neighborhood Mac's Public House is located in was then deemed by Cuomo to be a virus-risky "orange zone," meaning indoor dining was prohibited.
Days after his arrest, officials alleged Presti hit a sheriff's deputy with his car while attempting to flee the bar where he was again serving booze and food to patrons inside. He was then taken into custody again.
A grand jury declined to indict Presti in January.
The ongoing feud between the bar owners and the government started back in November when Presti and McAlarney were stripped of their liquor license for violating the COVID-19 executive orders by keeping their doors open for business.
Presti and McAlarney attempted to declare Mac's Public House an "autonomous zone" offering food and alcohol on the house, but asking patrons for tips and telling authorities they were not welcome.
Attorneys for the pub said the city dismissed more than 25 criminal summonses for the establishment in December after it stayed open for indoor dining and past curfew despite being in the orange zone.
Cuomo lifted the orange zone mandates at the end of January.
