Small business owners will soon be able to expand their storefront onto the sidewalk as part of a new Open Storefronts initiative the City will launch on Friday.
Retail shops will be able to sell their wares on sidewalks in front of their storefronts from Oct. 30 through Dec. 31 — just in time for the holiday season, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday.
In addition to retailers, repair shops, personal care services and laundry services can also use sidewalk space for seating, queuing or displaying dry goods under the Open Storefronts program.
The initiative aims to help more than 40,000 small businesses in a similar way that the Open Restaurants program helped thousands of restaurants across the five boroughs.
“Our Open Restaurants program … turned out to be something that really worked for New Yorkers,” de Blasio said during a press briefing. “Let’s apply that same idea to small businesses — retail businesses — all over the five boroughs that need additional business to survive.”
The program is modeled after the Open Restaurants program. Likewise, businesses located on existing Open Streets: Restaurants — that are cut off to most traffic — will be able to sell their products on the closed streets as well.
Multiple businesses on the same block can also join together to apply for an Open Street designation to turn their roadway over from car usage to ad hoc market usage, de Blasio said.
While this will (incrementally) help small businesses as long as this pandemic continues, this will wind up being counterproductive. It will just make the sidewalks more clustered which will make it harder to enforce distancing guidelines and also will make it more vulnerable to shoplifters and looters, which will require more NYPD presence. Not to mention that a lot of sidewalks where these stores are located aren't ample enough for those measurements detailed on that layout above.
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Agreed. My thoughts entirely. It will be a mess on the sidewalks.
Still looking at the restaurants in the streets and wondering what will happen when a snow plow goes down the block and the city damages those flimsy shacks - law suits against the city will more than make up for lost restaurant revenue.
Maybe that's the point.
In a way, this new law turns stores into sidewalk vendors. Maybe they can sell some bootleg high end purses on the side.
just wondering, where are people supposed to walk...it's bad enough as it is right now with the bars on the sidewalks.
If anybody ever traveled to Asia, well this is what they have there.
Now commie Wilhelm starting to destroy whatever is left of the city.
People walk? They are not part of the equation - a bit like street trees or hedges they are just there.
People do not lauder money or make campaign donations - they merely go through the old ritual of voting on the line they are told to mark with the X.
But think of bikers they matter too when they refuse to use the street roads.
An other control freak!
https://nypost.com/2020/10/29/bill-de-blasio-asserts-control-over-mets-sale-to-steve-cohen/
WTF? So the pandemic is a scamdemic you tool!
You worry about this CRAP? Lowlife commie.
Where are your homeless vagrants, who are just out looking for bread, going to sleep now?
Remember "flatten the curve? Just two weeks of "sheltering in place" so as not to overwhelm the hospitals? Remember "herd immunity" if enough people get covid and recover?
Well the curve has not just been flattened but crushed. The hospitals are not overwhelmed. And we have "herd immunity".
8 months later and they keep shifting the goal posts.
We are being had
CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel
Limit of Detection (LoD):
LoD studies determine the lowest detectable concentration of 2019-nCoV at which approximately 95% of all (true positive) replicates test positive. The LoD was determined by limiting dilution studies using characterized samples.
The analytical sensitivity of the rRT-PCR assays contained in the CDC 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel were determined in Limit of Detection studies. Since no quantified virus isolates of the 2019-nCoV are currently available , assays designed for detection of the 2019-nCoV RNA were tested with characterized stocks of in vitro transcribed full length RNA (N gene; GenBank accession: MN908947.2) of known titer (RNA copies/µL) spiked into a diluent consisting of a suspension of human A549 cells and viral transport medium (VTM) to mimic clinical specimen. Samples were extracted using the QIAGEN EZ1 Advanced XL instrument and EZ1 DSP Virus Kit (Cat# 62724) and manually with the QIAGEN DSP Viral RNA Mini Kit (Cat# 61904). Real-Time RT-PCR assays were performed using the ThemoFisher Scientific TaqPath™ 1-Step RT-qPCR Master Mix, CG (Cat# A15299) on the Applied Biosystems™ 7500 Fast Dx Real-Time PCR Instrument according to the CDC 2019-nCoV Real-
Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel instructions for use.
So they locked down the world for what? MSM hello? Politicians hello? Answers!
How will people in wheelchairs be able to navigate the sidewalks?
Cool. When the next wave of riots (next week?) happens it'll be a lot easier to find things to smash and burn.
When the next wave of riots (next week?) happens
Yep. Russia 1907 all over again. Same creeps, same powers, same CRAP!
Here in good old US of A.
HA, this is just normal every day business it places like Jamaica and on Jamaica Ave that has been going on for years.
Well the curve has not just been flattened but crushed. The hospitals are not overwhelmed. And we have "herd immunity".
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Where do some of you assholes, get your info (probably in your asshole), NO, we do not have herd immunity at this point (or as the ass in the White house says "herd mentality").
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Yep. Also your mouth needs to be washed out with soap. Calling other people you disagree with names?
Is this what you learned from your Commie friends? Shame on you.
We get the info from the CDC. No virus has ever been isolated.
Since no quantified virus isolates of the 2019-nCoV are currently available
https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
Check page 39.
Got that Common Core GED?
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