Simply over a month after Mayor Invoice de Blasio (D) stated the festivities can be “coming again full energy” to ring in 2022, his workplace detailed a pared-down plan in a news release. Viewing areas might be capped at 15,000 as an alternative of the common 58,000. Proof of full vaccination might be required, as was deliberate for the bigger celebration, and masks might be, too. Spectators gained’t be allowed entry till 3 p.m., later than in previous years.