Lawmakers are voting through a bill that keeps the expanded COVID-era program.
senior writer at Grub Street who covers the people who work and eat in New York City’s restaurantsWhether you love ’em or hate ’em, outdoor-dining setups aren’t going anywhere. Today, New York’s City Council is expected to pass its outdoor-dining bill , which will make sidewalk and street seating a permanent part of life in the city. It’s been 18 months since the bill was introduced, and at times it seemed fair to wonder whether the councilmembers had simply forgotten about it.
Earlier this summer, Open Restaurants advocates called attention to the fact that the emergency order for outdoor dining wasat the time that an environmental review was completed and a vote was imminent. It’s been a while since this news first came out, so it’s understandable if you need a refresher on what all it entails. The bill amends the City Charter and administrative code, specifically repealing the old sidewalk-café licensing provisions to set up a system that is more similar to the COVID plan, albeit with increased regulation.
One thing is for sure: Before the pandemic, only 1,400 restaurants had sidewalk-café licenses. Outdoor dining was also allowed in fewer neighborhoods, concentrated mostly in Manhattan and wealthier pockets of Brooklyn. Open Restaurants brought outdoor dining to 17 new neighborhoods, including many communities that are predominantly low-income or home to people of color. It also increased the number of outdoor setups to over 12,000, according to the Department of Transportation.
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