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Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images New Yorkers debate loss of parking spaces for outdoor dining On Monday, the New York Post published a report revealing that about 8,550 NYC parking spots have been monopolized by roadside outdoor dining sheds during the pandemic, according to data provided by the city. That’s about 0.3 percent of the city’s total three million parking spaces. The report kicked off, once again, a favorite pandemic argument for New Yorkers: Are outdoor dining sheds a welcome addition to the city’s dining scene or not? The Post talked to restaurateurs on both sides ...

“We are sold out! Thank you so much everybody!!!!” Former Gramercy Tavern pastry cook Lauren Tran types out the note and publishes the update to her Instagram feed. Months into the venture, Tran, 32, still can’t believe customers often snap up her $40 pastry boxes within hours of posting her weekly menu for Bánh by Lauren, her Vietnamese-French pastry business, on Instagram. On a gray, snowy Monday in mid-January, with customers anchored to their apartments and scrolling through the app, Tran’s macarons and banh bo nuong — a chewy, striated Vietnamese pandan honeycomb cake — are...