City Council approves permanent, scaled-down outdoor dining program
The City Council passed its long-awaited outdoor dining bill on Thursday, making the pandemic-era program permanent but with significant curtailments to how
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The City Council passed its long-awaited outdoor dining bill on Thursday, making the pandemic-era program permanent but with significant curtailments to how
The new requirements under legislation passed by the City Council include a mandate that sheds be taken down during the cold season.
Since 2020, outdoor dining has been a significant but usually temporary fixture of New York City. Restaurants that did not have outdoor dining space at the time were able to
Under the agreement, which came Thursday after months of haggling, outdoor restaurant dining would be permitted on sidewalks year-round and on city roads from spring to fall.
Email Address But elements of the city’s bureaucracy are gearing up to fight parts of the legislation. At a City Council hearing on Monday, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and the Department of Small Business Services pushed back on the proposals. Consumer Protection Commissioner Lorelei Salas opposed what she considered would be a dilution of the Consumer Protection Law, which Salas argued has been part of the city code since 1969. “Diluting the CPL and not improving its protections will have tremendously negative consequences for the most vulnerable of our city’...