When baseball returns to New York City next month, fans will be there to see it. They will just have to keep their distance from one another.
In a continuation of New York’s reintroduction of spectators at sporting events, which has already seen the return of basketball fans to Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Thursday that the Yankees and the Mets would be permitted to operate their stadiums at 20 percent of capacity to begin the 2021 baseball season.
That will translate to roughly 10,850 fans at Yankee Stadium for their Opening Day game against the Toronto Blue Jays on April 1.