The paperwork attached to the businesses reads in part:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the authorization granted by the City of New York's Open Restaurants Program is HEREBY TERMINATED.As observed by a City inspector on several instances, the seating area in front of your restaurant is deemed abandoned and, as a result, violates the terms and conditions of the Open Restaurants Program.
Last Thursday, a sledgehammer-toting Mayor Adams announced that a few dozen abandoned outdoor shelters would be demolished citywide. (City press release here.)
Per Gothamist:
Standing before a deserted shed in Manhattan, Adams emphasized his support for making outdoor dining a permanent fixture of city dining — an outcome officials have been working toward for months. But he said its longevity had to be safeguarded in a manner that is "safe, clean, and respectable to our neighbors and those who live in the communities."In addition to removing structures that belong to now-shuttered restaurants, Adams pledged to crack down on repeat violators of city outdoor dining regulations. Thirty-seven sheds are currently being investigated, according to his office.
The Open Restaurants program has been operating since June 2020.
A group of city residents filed an Article 78 lawsuit to end renewals of the emergency executive orders that authorize NYC's temporary Open Restaurants program and to end its operation.
"If the City wants to make an improved or expanded sidewalk café program, we're all for it. We'd love to be part of that discussion," said Leslie Clark, a petitioner in a legal action challenging the Open Restaurants program, in an advisory sent last week to local media outlets. "Communities throughout the city should have access to sidewalk cafés. But the Temporary Open Restaurants program has become a blight on our city, and it needs to end."
In any local dining-shed news, the still-open Amigo by Nai removed its structure at 29 Second Ave. between Second Street and First Street...
Tear ‘em all down
ReplyDeleteUsing tax payers money for the removals. Another reason to end this sham.
ReplyDeleteAt least make every restaurant deposit removal fee with the city, while they're still open.
Money will be made back by parking tickets
DeleteThe city does not have a legal foot to stand on regarding this temporary emergency plan. As we can see it did not save those now shuttered restaurants and if anything it will increase the leases for any new incoming restaurant. Landlords just got gifted 400 - 1000 square feet of out door dining space to include in their lease. All of this at the expense of taxpayers and residents who then have to put up with noise, garbage and the explosion of rats. I've lived here for 41 years I have seen the neighborhood when it look like Berlin circa 1945, but never have I've seen the quality of vermin as I do every single day starting at 4 pm. I hope the multiple lawsuits will give us our streets back and put an end to this land grab by landlords and hospitality.
ReplyDeleteGood for the City but we should definitely be charging the landlords and/or restaurants for the removals. Hopefully we continue to police the bad and encourage the good. If done correctly, outdoor dining can be a huge positive for the City.
ReplyDeleteOne of the sheds that Mayor Adams helped tear down was on 32nd St. in Koreatown. There are about 100 rats living under and around the shed and in the empty lot that was right next to it. The rats run back-and-forth at night between the empty lot and the sidewalk shed as they feast on all the piles of garbage. Who knew that rats like kimchi?
ReplyDeleteI've been to several concerts at Madison Square Garden over the past few months and every time I walked down this block in search of a cab a rat scurried from under that shed and into the empty lot. This week, the shed was gone, but the lot revealed itself to be filled with a whole family of rats scurrying around, Ratatouille style. Horrifying! To imagine anyone eating out on that street makes me feel sick.
DeleteWhoever owns the empty lot on the corner of 32nd St. and Fifth Avenue also has responsibility for this rat problem. They previously had a bunch of sheds on the lot for some kind of outdoor market and the rats were living inside of those as well. They tore down those sheds about a month ago but then the rats were still living in the sidewalk shed in the street. The lot is still completely infested and they have a safe haven on a block filled with dozens of restaurants. It is by far the worst rat infestation I have ever seen.
Delete"I've lived here for 41 years" is basically the start of anyone who whines and complains about outdoor dinning. Old, cranky folks who can't handle change in an area that is notoriously young and vibrant to live in.
ReplyDeleteJust funny a handful of.. 50+ year old people who want to stay in their rent protected apartments and not move think they can be the voice of change.
Get a grip and move.
Lemme guess, daddy is paying your $4,000 rent. Go back to where you came from.
DeleteAll this bleating about sheds ignores that our 4th world trash collection "system" is the source of the rat problem.
ReplyDelete"Just funny a handful of.. 50+ year old people who want to stay in their rent protected apartments and not move think they can be the voice of change."
ReplyDeleteNot a handful...and some of us were smart enough to buy our apartments and pay off our mortgage. It's the new generation that wants everything for free - rent, student loans, everything.
Glad the city is putting in effort to police the outdoor restaurant sheds. The expansion of dining is certainly a better use of the streets than car parking, which benefits the few. And thin trash bags on our streets for half the night is the cause of the rat problem, not sheds. Trash needs to be containerized for pickup.
ReplyDeleteThe city should put a lien on the building that housed the restaurant that put up the shed for the cost of removal.
ReplyDeleteSomeone is paying for these removals, and it shouldn't be the taxpayers.
We need more free parking for the hard working people of the neighborhood
ReplyDeleteI find it funny that ev grieve is more then happy to post comments completely stereotyping OG east village residents. Yup we was here , you was not.
ReplyDelete"Get a grip and move."
ReplyDeleteAh the usual two. The "move to" AND "get a grip" lines. Nice. The mating call of the transient Bro/Broette. The usual suspects. Of course I knew they would make an appearance on this thread. So predictable.
Like Yah!
It's about time. I have no problem with the sheds if they're being used as the restaurants took a brutal beating during Covid. But a vast majority of them are abandoned and/or falling apart, particularly on the LES.
ReplyDeleteI am all outdoor dining areas for Restaurants but these permanent sheds need to go -
ReplyDeleteThey sure marked areas for seats and tebles but they should be required to be put away every night
@9:24 AM "smart enough" to pay off your mortgage? tell me, what was your secret to figuring out how to be born at a time where you could afford to buy an apartment here without being in finance or tech? how much do you think you would need to make a year and have saved to buy in this neighborhood in 2022?
ReplyDeletesigned, an apartment owner here in finance and tech who doesn't think those should be requirements for owning here.
Containerized trash is definitely needed. Trash bags are not sufficient, they end up leaking smelly liquid all over the sidewalks
ReplyDeletesomeone needs to guilt momofuku on 1st ave to get rid of theirs, been abandoned for over a year while they renovated (along with a huge container for construction detritus).... everyone has to double park along this area, so stupid and pointless, just tear it down already and get rid of the trash bin while you're at it
ReplyDeleteAt Duda,
ReplyDeleteDid you finally get banned from BowerBoogie so you are bringing you anti-resident rants to EV Grieve? Seriously this person either owns a bar, loud trashy restaurant or works for a landlord/developer. He/She/They troll blogs and has the same responses, "you are old, die or move to Arizona" "nightlife is amazing and anyone who claims they need to sleep should move to a cabin in a forest". It's depressing the see they found EVG, one more plant from someone or something who wished financial gain at the expense of our mental health.
@11:02 AM
ReplyDeleteYou realize those were able buy an apartment 40 years ago didn't use a realtor, an app on their phone but probably the Village Voice.
We all lived with bars on our window, often the building next door was empty, had squatters, or was used as shooting gallery. People who moved to the ABCD were mostly gay or single straight men, depending on the block you didn't see a lot of young women east of avenue A. It was not all bad but you had to be either poor, born here or be able to recognize that their were so many fucking great people here to plant roots,
More! More! Take them all down! Ugly, unsafe, & unsanitary.
ReplyDeleteTo keep the streets clean, cars must move twice a week. The sheds should also have a abide by this law. Good luck.
ReplyDelete@noble neolani nope not banned, and everything you described about me is incorrect. Never have said for anyone to "die" or move to Arizone lol wtf are you talking about? "Seriously this person either owns a bar, loud trashy restaurant or works for a landlord/developer. " Wrong wrong and more wrong.
ReplyDeleteIf your mental health is hurt by there being a shed vs a car you need therapy.
"It's the new generation that wants everything for free - rent, student loans, everything." This has literally nothing to do with what i was saying lol I pay may own went and don't have loans nor do i think they should be forgiven either.
"I knew they would make an appearance on this thread. So predictable." So you predicted someone would have the opposite opinion as you and they are wrong for doing so? Or a bro? You seem reasonable.
"Lemme guess, daddy is paying your $4,000 rent. Go back to where you came from."
Not sure if this was direct to me but i pay for my own rent.
City will not remove abandoned van from NJ parked on 6th St east of 1st Avenue
ReplyDelete@5:06pm: I'm sure it'll get moved in about 4 years. You can't expect anything useful to happen in NYC now, b/c the mayor is too busy *socializing* at private clubs to do the job he's actually paid to do.
ReplyDeleteAnd then he complains when people *notice* him spending so much of his time swanning around, instead of working.
Yeah, the 8 months mayor is the root of all problems. Because the previous 3 ones were so great.
DeleteI wish others treated one another with more respect and dignity on this thread for comments. A majority of these sheds are eyesores and improperly maintained. Unless there is oversight for them to be kept properly through the city, which will never happen, dismantle them. 2020 to 2021 is over and out. We are halfway over with 2022. They were great for all during that time, but now not so much. And to one of the commenters who mentioned that those over 50 should move out if they can't deal with it, dude I'm only 42. Does that quantify me as an old fart who should move out too if I don't like it? I actually work in a restaurant as a bartender and manager and let me tell you, these little sheds are terrains for drug addicts, weirdos with nothing better to do but hang out, sleep and bring their own food, and criminals looking for trouble before and after business hours. You should get a grip. Not us. .
ReplyDelete"So you predicted someone would have the opposite opinion as you and they are wrong for doing so? Or a bro? You seem reasonable."
ReplyDeleteAgain, YOU used the standard "get a grip" and "move to" cliched lines (your words) that are always sputtered out at this blog from the usual suspect entitled/self-centered/privileged/nonempathic ones.
You're a SantaCon fan, right?
They need to remove like 75% of the sheds …. No one is sitting there ! And many are covered in graffiti and rats .
ReplyDeletePlease remove 95% on east 6th! Complete eyesores and not used .
All you people are such dorks. The NIMBYs are grumpy… news at 11. NYC is dirty and sucks ass. Living there just shows how masochistic some people can be. Newsflash: you’re not special, and you actually live a very inconvenient lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteHave fun dining at your local Applebee's and stay away from our blog you mall-rat suburbanite.
Delete@ anon 7:20 Agreed.
ReplyDeleteJust hope the spots from the now demolished sheds are not seized and taken over by CitiBikes.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness they removed the shed outside of Dia. The restaurant that made their manager stand outside on the street and solicit passersby to come in for dinner as if we were tourists walking up Mulberry Street…and didn’t have the decency to tear down their shed when they quickly folded. That thing became a makeshift homeless shelter within a week. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see that the city is managing the Open Restaurants program, I’d like to see it work out while keep our streets as clean and safe as possible. 🙂
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