As was predicted, the City Council made a grave error in so weakening the city’s outdoor dining program that hardly any restaurants have set up tables in the ...

NYC’s revamped outdoor dining program is facing heat from restaurant owners and city lawmakers. At a City Council oversight hearing, restaurateurs voiced frustration with confusing design rules ...

As a result, two years later, then-Councilwoman Marjorie Velázquez introduced legislation to create the version of the permanent outdoor dining program that exists today — Dining Out NYC.

By Olivia Bensimon When New York City announced new rules to formalize and standardize its outdoor dining program, Megan Rickerson, the owner of Someday Bar in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – New York City has seen ... In 2023, the city adopted a new permanent outdoor dining program to allow for year-round sidewalk dining and seasonal roadway dining.

During COVID, roadway dining ... NYC. “That former agency, which I used to lead, used to run and have approval over sidewalk cafés. They were the agency who should have been given this program ...

The city's car-free open streets are funded for just one more year under Mayor Adams's proposed budget. But Cuomo looms.

to discuss mounting criticism surrounding the recent launch of New York City’s outdoor dining program.

Where there were once 22 outdoor dining setups, today there is one, a bright-red pavilion hung with string lights and lined with freshly planted flowers, overseen by a plastic owl to keep the pigeons ...

The number of open streets projects has dropped year after year as volunteer groups struggle to fund and staff them.

Open street season officially started last week, and elected officials stood with advocates in Queens to demand the city ...