Just The News:
New York City plans to make its flourishing outdoor dining economy a permanent fixture of the city’s landscape going forward, municipal officials said in a press release on Friday.
The city’s “Open Restaurants” program, which has enrolled thousands of establishments since it debuted in June, “will be extended year-round and made permanent,” the city announced in the press release.
That program “has already saved an estimated 90,000 jobs citywide,” the city estimates. Mayor Bill de Blasio described the program as “a big, bold experiment in supporting a vital industry and reimagining our public space.” more
SNIP: What’s the weather like in NYC during the winter months?
Also, why do I suspect there will be a brand new tax attached to this ‘open restaurants’ program?
Permanent and outdoors……
Easier access for BLM and Antifa to accost diners.
I’ll bet money the communist dick tater Mayor dines inside.
Jesus, the contortions REgressives go through to validate their central planning is ridiculous. A fly on the wall in these brainstorm meetings would just shake it’s head and buzz off.
What restaurant is going to survive in the north serving meals outside in January?
And “saved 90,000 jobs” Christ on a crutch, yamean jobs lost because of the catastrophic lock down needlessly imposed?
HTF do people live in REgressive run shitholes like this? Is the vibrance that magnetic? Can this asshole run for a 3rd term?
Good thing politicians have taken care of their bankruptcy, homelessness, crime, drug, capital flight, and collapsing tax base issues otherwise they wouldn’t have time to worry about ticky tacky how-to-run-your-business rules.
Just think how easy it would be for a NON-dicktater mayor to undo this stupidity and be appreciated.
I’ve read that they are working on designing heaters that they can use to heat the space (open) around the diners.
WTF? They must put a lot of stuff in the nyc water if they run with that. What about glowbull warming? Does aoc have anything to do with this? It sounds like she might.
I’d suggest they hold a banquet in January for St. greta.
I hoid they’ll be serving Prestone cocktails in Moscow on the Hudson…
Heated sidewalks – yea that’s the ticket. Snowflakes will love it.
I’m sure there are lots of people eager to move to NYC after hearing this.
The other night at Trump’s rally he said he was considering a play for NY. He should do it just to freak them out and have them lose their minds.
I can still remember how I nearly froze to death in New York City in February walking to get a warmer overcoat. When the winter wind blows down those concrete and glass canyons it’s like being on a trip to the South Pole with Robert Falcon Scott, and we all remember how that worked out. That’s why there are so many people living in Florida during the winter where they can eat outside. One of these days, a deranged restaurant owner is going to be let off by a jury of sympathetic diners with a verdict of justifiable homicide for ridding New York City of this meddlesome Mayor.
I’m about as likely to patronize an outdoor seating restaurant in the winter as I am to have dinner in one of those shitholes that are so dark inside that it is all but impossible to read the menus. I was given a $500 gift certificate for El Gaucho that is one of those fore mentioned Goddamned caves. It is still sitting here fifteen years later.
If I am in NY ever again https://peterluger.com/
I would like to order Roast Beef with a side order of Frost Bite.
If I owned a restaurant in NYC I would pack everything up to move to a free state and re-open my restaurant.
By the time they tent everything up and run the outdoor heaters you may actually end up being much worse off.
1)Wind will blow through and the deadliest virus known to freedom may be pushed around unless the Tents are so air tight that you may as well be inside.
2) Most patio heaters I have seen do not have an actual chimney so the will be venting combustion products under the canopy. CO & CO2 build up can become real issues if these tents are closed off tightly.
3) Electric heaters will not like the water & snow puddling around them or their cables.
4) Rats gnawing at your feet esp. in NY Shitty. Rat population will explode and increase other diseases.
5) Washrooms? Aw just shit in the streets people. Give the City a WEST COAST Flair.
All Bullshit, just to get the public used to living in the streets as per the desire of UN, WHO and Communists so that everyone is as equally miserable as Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and the other Shi-tHoleistans.
I think DUH-blase-oh, should live in a cardboard box outdoors, all year long. 😠
I don’t mind dining outside. I have had the joy to do that in multiple countries. However, being mandated to do it, is idiocy. Why would anyone want to eat outdoors in New York (Denver, or wherever) when it is freezing outside, just because some tin-pot dictator (or wannabe like de Blasio, Hancock (current Denver monarch)) decides they can get away with (and get off on, sorry about the visual) being a tyrant?
Parka pancakes, what Americans dream of.
Many NYC restaurant owners may indeed switch to year round outdoor dining. But they will be doing it in another state farther south.
Hey RogerF, I see Hancock, in his race to outdo old Wellington, has put evictions off the table by forbidding the sheriffs to participate.
So if you have renters in Denver, I guess tough shit is the order of the day if they decide not to pay the rent.
I packed up in 2001 and left NoDo. Was I ahead of the curve or what?
Since we’re all signing up to eat outside, maybe we can all sign up to live outside. Makes sense.
When does the insanity end and the sanity begin? Just asking. 🤔
How will they keep the food warm? The hot coca?
Apparently you don’t have to worry about ordering a ‘cold beer’.
Ordering something ‘hot’ may cost extra.