"City Council Member Lincoln Restler introduced new legislation on Thursday to reinstate year-round open dining alongside streets and ease the permit process for restaurants that wish to participate. The bill includes additional requirements for snow removal and new measures to address sanitation issues. Restler's year-round dining bill would include expanding outdoor dining footprints for smaller restaurants, designing safer streets, and allowing more businesses, such as grocery stores, to participate."
"The current program's restrictions require roadway cafes to be seasonal, meaning the restaurant is responsible for spending "thousands to build, take down, store, and rebuild their setups every year-while adding other unnecessary restrictions to outdoor cafes," according to Andrew Rigie, executive director of NYC Hospitality Alliance. In Brooklyn, more than 12,000 restaurants had outdoor dining in 2021, with an estimated 8,000 of them featuring roadway cafes . Borough President Antonio Reynoso introduced the program in 2020 as a response to the COV"
City Council Member Lincoln Restler introduced legislation to reinstate year-round open dining alongside streets and to ease the permit process for participating restaurants. The bill adds requirements for snow removal and introduces measures to address sanitation problems. The proposal would expand outdoor dining footprints for smaller restaurants, redesign streets for safety, and permit more businesses, including grocery stores, to participate. Past quality-of-life issues such as abandoned sheds, illegal dumping and vermin prompted tighter restrictions last year that limited participation. Those restrictions were called "frustrating and cost-prohibitive" and resulted in only 1,400 roadway dining applications at the season's start.
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