Outdoor Dining
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Analysis: DOT’s Curb Management ‘Action’ Couldn’t Come Soon Enough
DOT and Mayor Adams on Tuesday released a 10-point curb management "action plan" full of plans to make plans to reorient curb space away from private car storage.
September 15, 2023
Outdoor Dining: What Will the April-to-December Program Look Like?
The race for outdoor dining designs — and warehousing them in the winter — is on.
September 8, 2023
Op-Ed: Seasonal-Only Outdoor Dining Law Doesn’t Work for the Industry
A bar owner tells Mayor Adams that outdoor dining must be a year-round affair.
August 16, 2023
Council To Vote on Outdoor Dining Bill Next Month
The long-stalled outdoor dining bill is finally set to come up for a vote.
July 22, 2023
BREAKING: There’s a New Lawsuit to End Outdoor Dining
The pandemic is over, so should outdoor dining end, too?
July 6, 2023
RED TAPE: Council’s Outdoor Dining Bill Could Undo Gains of Pandemic Program
“The cost for us, it’s probably gonna mean the end of outdoor dining as we know it.”
May 22, 2023
Council Moves Final Outdoor Dining Bill as Seasonal Program
The City Council will finally move forward with plans for a permanent outdoor dining program that would restrict "streeteries" in the roadway to eight months out of the year while, according to new legislation released on Thursday.
May 19, 2023
Workers, City Coffers Will Lose Out if Council Ditches Year-Round Street Dining, Experts Say
Yet the Council has not analyzed the economic harm that its bill could cause to one of New York's signature industries.
March 1, 2023
Restaurateurs, Advocates Beg Council To Keep All-Year Outdoor Dining
"If we have to take it down in the winter there’s no putting that stuff back up," said Donna Drakes, owner of the Caribbean restaurant Brooklyn Beso in Bedford-Stuyvesant. "I think that’s just a way for them to get rid of it."
February 28, 2023
