Assemblymember Patricia Fahy announced that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation extending the use of municipal space for outdoor dining to continue helping New York’s restaurant industry recover from the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Previous legislation signed in July of 2021 extended this program for one additional year. The legislation signed extends the outdoor dining program for three additional years, preventing the need for continual renewal. A survey conducted in January 2022 by the New York State restaurant industry found that 74% of operators report sales volume in 2021 was lower than it was in 2019. Additionally, 55% of restaurant operators have reduced hours of operation on days they opened and 40% are closed on days they would normally be open, limiting sales.
“Outdoor dining utilizing sidewalks and street space has become a financial lifeline for New York’s restaurants during the global COVID-19 pandemic,” said Fahy, D- Albany. “Not only has it helped hundreds of small, locally owned businesses remain in business, it’s also proved a popular boon to our local economies and ‘Main Streets.’ I was proud to sponsor this legislation to help allow those restaurants to continue utilizing outdoor spaces for another three years to help keep their doors open, and I commend Governor Hochul for signing legislation extending New York’s ‘open streets.'”
“I am so pleased the Governor signed this legislation in time for
people to enjoy dining out this summer,” said Assemblymember Carrie
Woerner. “The measure was originally intended to be a short-term assist
for restaurants in New York during the very trying previous years.
However, a happy consequence was learning that people enjoy the
transformation of busy streets into places for al fresco dining. While
the food service sector is still making adjustments to the way they
operate in the wake of the extreme disruptions of the pandemic, this
bill will give them three additional years to refine utilizing outdoors
spaces as they come back to full time operation.”
19 comments:
Rent free? Gentrification zealots!
Trying her best to get elected !
Are the sheeple to be angry with this or happy that they came graze outdoors? Tune in next week to the Tucker Putin show, and find all the answers to how you should think.
Another arrogant Democrat...we gotta vote these people OUT.
Kathy Clown: "How dare you try to ursurp my micromanagement! I hereby ban all guns to satisfy my lust for power."
Allex Joones said...
This is part of the War on Cars! UN Agenda 2030
Why would anyone want to dine outside on NYC streets when so many people and children are being shot on the streets everyday?
Extending outdoor dining is only going to make NYC worse, not better.
Gangbangers and teenagers doing drive-by shootings on electric mopeds and scooters will easily have more targets.
Way to make NYC worse! Thanks Governor Idiot!
We need guns not food! Guns for shootin stuff and looking cool.
And what moron wants to "dine" sitting in the gutter?
Thanks to the Sheeple who keep voting Blue no matter who !
Unfortunately government is way too big.
This was a good idea two years ago. The time has passed. It’s become a scam for restaurant owners to enlarge their facility beyond the original design.
Many of these places already have outdoor dining set up under existing laws and don’t need the shacks, which have become filthy harbors of rats and garbage..
We tore one of ours down three weeks ago and it was shocking how disgusting the pavement was underneath the rotting floor. I kind of knew that was what we’d find since they all smell a bit moldy, but it was is still something to see what was just a few inches under the customers.
Added to that, the goddamn Leech (landlords) are already trying to raise rents based on the added selling space –space that isn’t theirs to sell.
Again, it was an idea for which all of us in the industry should be thankful for, but it’s time is over.
Labor Day (at latest) should be the end.
Rob in Manhattan
@“ Kathy Clown: "… I hereby ban all guns to satisfy my lust for power."
Was that you in Highland park?
Or just another average American exercising his freedoms?
@“ Thanks to the Sheeple who keep voting Blue no matter who !”
And the Sheeple who vote red no matter who.
There is a massive Garbage and Rat problem due to these restaurant sheds.
Rob in Manhattan is right this time.
Kathy Nutjob, must have been one of those streets, you know gun free zones:
"Eric Adams aide mugged at gunpoint told crooks: ‘You don’t want to do this. I work for the mayor."
Yeah right. All licensed and legally carrying guns while mugging the mayor's aide.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/05/eric-adams-aide-mugged-at-gunpoint-in-nyc-sources/
"The crooks then fled the scene, with one — described as a black male wearing a blue and white sweatshirt — making his getaway on a Citi Bike, sources said. The other suspect was described as a black male wearing sunglasses and a blue mask."
Citi Bike! Start suing them for providing escape bikes for muggers.
Basically they are aiding and abetting criminals.
#BLUEANON Anxiety and Stress Affects You at the Cellular Level.
@"And the Sheeple who vote red no matter who" Where is that ? That is a typical New Yorker Blue No Matter who brainwashed response.
Breaking News Breaking News...
The US Congress, Senate, White House, NYS Senate/Assembly, NYC Council and NYC Mayor.
All DemorAt controlled.
"Sheeple who vote red no matter who" Sure, crybaby.
You must be a Soros puppet!
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