![]() It occupies the site of what was previously known as Blueprint cafe, Sir Terrence Conran’s first restaurant. Let's rebuild New York City for a post-pandemic and climate-friendly future that serves all New Yorkers and our many visitors.Blueprint is the latest addition to London’s vibrant event scene. And while we're at it, let's add more trees-our streets can use the shade and the beauty of more trees. Consider genuine, non-commercial community needs - loading zones used by all businesses and residents, bike parking for non-rental bikes, new solutions for trash removal, and residential and visitor parking permits. Don't let restaurants cut to the front of the line for curbside and sidewalk use. Prepare an environmental impact statement to disclose significant environmental impacts so that they can be mitigated.ġ0. Give community boards at least 45 days to review applications and allow neighborhood input.ĩ.Ğnsure that New York's outdoor dining program is environmentally sound. Restore a civil process to our communities. The excesses of pandemic-era outdoor dining have created strife between restaurants and their neighbors. Bring back the DCWP, provide adequate staffing for the enlarged program, and we'll have a world-class program.Ĩ. The Department of Consumer Affairs (now DCWP) ran a well-managed sidewalk cafe program, while the Department of Transportation has notoriously looked the other way under their emergency "self-certified" program. Limit sidewalk dining in areas with high pedestrian traffic as the sidewalk cafe regulations in the Zoning Resolution did.ħ. On a 20-foot sidewalk, that leaves 10 feet for service and dining. On a 12-foot sidewalk that leaves four feet for service and dining. Give pedestrians, wheelchair users, and others a clear path of at least 8 feet or 50% of the sidewalk, whichever is greater. ![]() School-age New Yorkers need quiet to do their homework. In residential & mixed-use areas, outdoor dining should close at sunset. Require bars and restaurants to contain crowd noise and music behind closed doors and windows. Keep the alcohol-fueled din of outdoor dining out of our homes. Quiet the restaurant noise in residential areas. ![]() All fees and consent agreements should be sliding scale based on fair market value: expensive for most of Manhattan and significantly discounted elsewhere.ĥ. Let the outdoor dining program pay for itself by getting the fees right for both prime and small neighbor hood real estate. Restaurants are businesses, not charities. ![]() Heating and cooling the outdoors does not.Ĥ. We must take climate change seriously and do the same. New York City declared a climate emergency! So has France, where they've banned all outdoor heaters because of the effect on the climate. Stop heating and air-conditioning the outdoors in a climate emergency. This creates 5,900+ outdoor dining sites - 5X the pre-pandemic number of sidewalk cafes - and gives restaurants new incentives to open in the outer boroughs.ģ. Limit the number of cafe licenses in each community board district to 100, or the number pre-pandemic, whichever is greater. To avoid saturation in residential areas, ensure no block has more than one or two licenses. Some neighborhoods have just a few outdoor dining set-ups, while others - Williamsburg, Astoria, the Village, and the Lower East Side - are saturated beyond endurance. Fine non-compliant operators and remove remaining dining setups at their owners' expense.Ģ.ĝistribute outdoor dining across the boroughs and neighborhoods equitably. Sunset all roadway setups now, then roll out citywide street cleaning and rat abatement programs. The firefighter rank-and-file reports what their bosses can't - that response times are up where dining blocks the streets. Sanitation street sweepers haven't cleaned restaurant-filled streets in more than two years.
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