Sip to support your neighborhood gathering place! Despite all restaurants and bars following the COVID-19 mandated shut-down, licensed spots of lubrication may now offer cocktails to-go with the State Liquor Authority’s blessing. “I want to support my local pubs so they don’t go out of business,” says Chris Artis, a freelance book public relations rep from South Park Slope, who now goes daily to the to-go window of his favorite local bar. “The bartender is always wearing gloves and sanitizes all the cups and bottles.
He’s looking out for me, and I’m looking out for him.” There are, of course, some rules — bars and restaurants can’t serve outside of their normal hours, all alcoholic beverages that are not in their originally unsealed