i think a lot of non essential businesses are starting to bend his ear and maybe its just to pacify them or give a glimmer of hope but we have seen businesses go from non essential to essential after meetings in the last week
Here is Cuomo's press conference from today. Other than suggesting that "recovered" people should join the work force (and personally I think the jury is still out on whether that's feasible), he doesn't sound like he is leaning towards reopening businesses soon (I could be wrong, and I'm certainly not privvy to any internal conversations which could very well be different).