Most New Yorkers won’t be confined to their apartments on 80-degree days, and there is ample space to use, if we’re smart about it. marianbull on the case for opening New York City streets to bars and restaurants
Carrying beers in New York this past week. Photo: John Lamparski/Getty Images As New Yorkers start to consider what reopening the city might look like, whenever we’re ready for it, the question of how bars and restaurants will figure into this looms large. Already, antsy residents are taking to the streets, ordering to-go drinks from restaurants’ and bars’ assorted takeout windows, essentially transforming neighborhood sidewalks into makeshift dining areas and bars.
The obvious answer is to open New York’s streets to restaurants and bars. The City Council has already begun to discuss what an expansion of outdoor dining could look like, once the city is ready for it. “We need to start planning how we’re going to help our restaurants recover from this crisis, and luckily we don’t have to re-create the wheel,” says City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who has already met with the New York City Hospitality Alliance to identify potential open spaces.
Diners, it seems, are ready: “I’ve gotten a couple requests for putting chairs and tables in front of the restaurant,” says Benjaporn Chua, a co-owner of Plant Love House and Noods n’ Chill in Brooklyn. “That would be a really good opportunity for diners and for restaurants, too — because right now, the weather is nice, people don’t have anywhere to go unless they buy takeout and have to go to the park. I really want to see it happen.
Those workers might not be as excited about outdoor dining as their bosses are: “I don’t know if I trust restaurant owners and management to actually create safe places for people to come back to work,” says Hadass Wade, a bartender and former restaurant supervisor in Brooklyn. “Especially if it’s left up to owners and management to figure out how best to make their employees feel safe.
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