[Update: The Department of Health has given the all-clear for The Gutter to reopen!] Williamsburg's beloved bowling alley and music venue, The Gutter, closed yesterday after it was revealed the NYC doctor who tested positive for Ebola had been there on Wednesday night. The Gutter issued a statement this morning:

City officials have emphasized that the Ebola patient, Dr. Craig Spencer, was not ill when he went out on Wednesday (besides going to The Gutter, he went to the High Line; ate at The Meatball Shop; took the 1, A and L trains; took an Uber) and that Ebola is not airborne. NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said, "People with Ebola are contagious when they are sick, and what's contagious about them are body fluids." The NY Times also explained it's extremely unlikely one would get Ebola from a bowling ball.

One Williamsburg resident wants Mayor de Blasio to show his confidence:

Update: Dr. Don Weiss of the Health Department said during a press conference outside The Gutter, "We came to see that there was no exposure meaning there was no bodily fluids that were here. We confirmed that. The place can reopen and we hope that people will come back." He said of The Gutter, "Theyve been cooperating fully."

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Up-to-date information on the Ebola situation in New York and worldwide after an emergency room doctor who, after treating Ebola patients in West Africa, tested positive for the virus. Dr. Craig Spencer is being treated at Bellevue hospital.

5:18 p.m. -- Cuomo, Christie release details of new state standards

Governor Andrew Cuomo and Governor Chris Christie announced additional screening protocols for Ebola at both JFK and Newark Liberty International Airports:

--There will be real-time access to on-the-ground screening at JFK and Newark Liberty International Airports by New York and New Jersey Departments of Health staff

--Each State Department of Health at JFK and Newark Liberty International Airports will, as permitted under applicable law, make its own determination as to hospitalization, quarantine, and other public health interventions for up to 21 days. There will also be a mandatory quarantine for any individual who had direct contact with an individual infected with the Ebola virus while in one of the three West African nations (Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea), including any medical personnel having performed medical services to individuals infected with the Ebola virus. Additionally, all individuals with travel history to the affected regions of West Africa, with no direct contact with an infected person, will be actively monitored by public health officials and, if necessary, quarantined, depending on the facts and circumstances of their particular situation.

--New York and New Jersey are establishing enhanced communication protocols between their respective state health departments to coordinate on matters pertaining to New York and New Jersey resident travelers who fly into Newark and JFK

--The Centers of Disease Control (CDC) and Customs Border Patrol (CBP) will provide information to New York and New Jersey's respective State Departments of Health on all screening on a real-time basis and provide a daily recap as to the status of that day's screening and CDC determinations

4:40 p.m. -- Cuomo, Christie announce mandatory quarantine for high-risk passengers coming through area airports

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4:36 p.m. -- Cuomo, Christie announce increase in screening

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The Brooklyn bowling alley that New York City's first Ebola patient visited has shut down for cleaning, according to a statement on the alley's Facebook page.

Dr. Craig Spencer, who returned to the US from Guinea 10 days ago, tested positive for Ebola on Thursday. Spencer was working with Doctors Without Borders in Guinea, which is one of the West African countries that has seen a major outbreak of Ebola. He's now in isolation at Bellevue Hospital.

After he returned to New York, Spencer spent most of his time in his apartment, but he rode the subway and visited The Gutter, a bowling alley in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He reportedly wasn't symptomatic at the time, but The Gutter has shuttered temporarily as an extra precaution.

Here's the statement from the bowling alley:

New Yorkers' risk of contracting Ebola is very low. Spencer self-quarantined at his apartment soon after he became symptomatic, and the virus is only spread through contact with bodily fluids of a symptomatic person.

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Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Assemblyman Joseph Lentol declared this afternoon theywill play a frame at trendy Williamsburg lanes and music venue The Guttertomorrowjust three days after Dr. Craig Spencer, now diagnosed with the Ebola virus, bowled there.

Mr. Adams and Mr. Lentol visitedThe Gutter, and praised the venue and its owner Todd Powers for theircultural and recreational offerings before promising to play there on Saturday. City officials have beenscramblingto easepublic fears ever since Mr. Spencer was quarantined with the illnesswhich has killed thousands in Africa and one patient in Texasat Bellevue Hospital last night.

Not only provides great bowling, but you can also get a great group, as well as a great band. So it is really the triple-b in the great borough of Brooklyn that we are coming out to support, Mr. Adams said.We wanted to come here today not only as an avid bowler, but as the borough president of the Borough of Brooklyn where 2.6 million people live, and we want to send a clear message that we would be bowling right now if the place was open, but we will definitely be here when the venue re-opens.

Mr. Adams noted the location has been declared free of the virus, and that Mr. Powers has taken it upon himself to pay for an extensive cleaning since yesterdays announcement. Mr. Lentolwho entered the facility with the borough presidentsaid that the alley would be pristine bythe time it re-opens this evening.

We came here, the borough president and I, was to go inside and to allay peoples fears that theyre going to catch a virus by going inside this bowling alley, said Mr. Lentol.Todd runs one of the great establishments, one of the jewels of Williamsburg.

Both men praised Mayor Bill de Blasio, Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Centers for Disease Control for their swift response, and argued that New York would not see a reprise of the Dallas incident, where the late victim was able to infect a nurse before his death.

The medical industry is on top of it, Mr. Adams assured reporters.

Mr. Adams also noted his office would be offering free vaccinations against the influenza virus, whose initial effects resemble Ebolas, to avoid a widespread panic.

We dont want, every time theres symptoms theres a cold or a flu, for people to believe theres something out of the ordinary, said Mr. Adams.

Mr. Adams said it was unclear whetherMr. Spencer, a Harlem resident who had been fighting Ebola in Africa, was bowling or just listening to a band two evenings agobut pointed out there was virtually no chance of contracting the disease via casual contact, and that Mr. Spencer was not infectious at the time.

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