Tuesday, December 6, 2022

The city serves notice to more abandoned East Village curbside dining structures

On Friday, the Department of Transportation placed an ABANDONED outdoor seating notice on the gate at the now-closed Compilation Coffee on St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue...
The coffee shop, which is now empty, has 14 days to "correct the deficiencies" of its outdoor seating... which was constructed the same week that Compilation suddenly closed without any notice...
The pour-over coffee shop shuttered at the start of November after less than two months in business. Google lists Compilation Coffee as "permanently closed." The shop's website notes that Compilation Coffee Roasters 2.0 is coming soon, though perhaps not at this location as the inside is bare. The CC Instagram account is now MIA as well. 

In other abandoned curbside dining news, the DOT also served notice (on Nov. 27) to the currently closed Cloister Cafe on Ninth Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue... (thanks to EVG reader Craig Sloane for these photos...)
That abandoned space (seen below last week) has been removed...
The city started issuing warnings about abandoned (or deficient) curbside dining spaces back in August. 

As for the future of outdoor dining, Curbed noted earlier this fall: 
The improvisational process that birthed streeteries is over, and the government is approaching a consensus on how to make them permanent. While those rules are still being written, a few outcomes seem likely. Rickety plywood sheds will come down — eventually; it could take a while — and be replaced in many cases by more up-to-code structures. And New York will continue to allow restaurants to commandeer an astounding amount of public pavement.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 6, 2022 at 4:57 PM

    Abandonded

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  2. David GoldsmithDecember 7, 2022 at 4:46 PM

    Open less than 2 months. How many places have paraded through the retail spaces in this building? And now the street in front of it? And the public now needs to bare the brunt of policing and cleaning up after this nonsense.

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