Photos by Steven
The flyer states that the owners have 48 hours to remove the abandoned structure, or the city will do it and charge the business that closed six months ago ...
Meanwhile, the status of outdoor dining in NYC remains in flux.
Compilation, a pour-over coffee spot, closed last November after less than two months in business without any notice to patrons. The curbside dining structure was erected a week before the shutdown.
A for-rent sign now hangs in the front window.
Keep it comin’. Get rid of the sheds
ReplyDeleteI had to stop myself and re-read "two months" in business. How many deluded people are there who think that one more small coffee shop is going to turn into a pot of gold. Do any of these people consult with people with business experience? How many small coffee shops (with two or three tables) can any neighborhood support?
ReplyDeleteGood - get rid of these sheds -
ReplyDeleteGet the sheds OUT, every last one of them.
ReplyDeleteI know of at least three sheds just in my area that are candidates for dismantling. Why doesn't the city step up it efforts to get rid off these eyesores? They should set up a tip line which would speed up process.
ReplyDeleteThere is a tip line, it's called 311
ReplyDeleteIf a restaurant is shuttered, clear the shed. If restaurants are open, let’s keep enjoying outdoor public space for coffees and dining instead of for already abundant free car storage.
ReplyDeletejust reported this on 311. whomever made the biz decisions for Compilation needs to take accountability for trashing the street.
ReplyDeleteEnough with the free car storage bogeyman.
ReplyDeleteCan someone please explain who is in charge of all this? How these things re still one existence at all? How Canal Street STILL gets closed so a few hip bars/restaurants can have a street fair every single day of the week? Completely changing the landscape of areas and quality of life for residents and they don't even pay? It's so bizarre to me.
ReplyDeleteThey literally built a NEW shed this week outside Bar Primi on E 2ND. How the f????
ReplyDelete@3:11 "Storage" are you serious? Are you talking about parking? Bizarre thing to say. It's actually important for a lot of people, cars need somewhere to publicly park. Anyway... regardless, Im sick of being boxed in by these things when I'm on the sidewalk. People like Au Za'ataar and Lil Frankies are disgustingly greedy and get away with whatever they want, taking over tons of public space and boxing people in and I don't know why it's allowed.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot to bring out the old sob story about "elderly relatives" to explain away why you should be entitled to free parking.
ReplyDeleteAgeism is rampant. "Sob story?" Wow. Citibike is nothing but "free advertising." And on we go..........Trolls.
ReplyDeleteSome people need cars for work. To go there to carry their tools equipment materials. Belive it or not, there are actual carpenders, video producers, artists and others who require a car to work in and outside the city and they arent wealthy. I would love to not have a car but I have to to make money to live here. I'm rent stabilized and cannot afford to go live in the suburbs. If you don't get that, you are in some utopian bubble where workers who need to haul stuff don't exist in your city.
ReplyDeleteWhy can't they just say city taxpayers will pay to remove these shacks. As if the city or state has the necessary bureaucracy to charge abandoned businesses that they seemingly grant licenses to without actually looking at their books.
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