Pandemic-related restrictions on restaurants, gyms, offices, casinos, and catered events, will be relaxed the coming weeks in New York, a direct result of improving Covid rates in the state, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday.

Following C.D.C. guidance, New Yorkers who are fully vaccinated will no longer be required to wear masks outdoors, "except in certain crowded settings and venues," and to make it easier to get the vaccine, the state is opening all of its mass vaccination sites to walk-ins. 

The Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum will reopen on Saturday with an exhibition of photographs of the East End taken by William Wallace Tooker circa 1895.

On Monday, the Golden Pear Cafe marked 30 years on Newtown Lane in East Hampton.