Decision 2025: Mayor's hopes discuss the death of the food outdoors

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Question 7:

Scott Stringer, former President of Manhattan Borough and city improvements

We have to create an opportunity for open roads and restaurants outdoors to work permanently for everyone – companies, residents and pedestrians. Apart from the pandemic, the outdoor food was a lifeline for local restaurants and brought our neighborhoods new energy.

Now the Council has introduced new rules that have to create endless bureaucratic Hoops restaurant owners to apply for approval and then restrict the number of permits. As a mayor, I will ask the advice to visit the problem again, loosen the unnecessary design requirements so that smaller companies can take part without breaking the bank, and creating a special support program to support company owners in order to make navigation more easily, fair and transparent.

However, while we are expanding this program, we also have to tackle concerns about noise, hygiene and sidewalk access, so that the food outdoors improves the neighborhoods and does not bother them. Each community deserves to benefit from open roads and outdoor restaurants. I will make sure that the program is accessible and fair in the entire city, not only in a handful of rich areas.

Zellnor Myrie, Senator from Brooklyn

As a mayor, I will commit myself to expand and improve them to ensure that they remain alive and accessible to all New York. Outdoor Dining is a valuable opportunity to support small companies, which enables the growth of the neighborhood and the local economy to thrive. As part of the current NYC program of the administration, however, many restaurants are burdened that they have dismantled their open air cafe setups every winter. We have already seen a strong decline in participation.

If we are successful outdoors, we have to make it easier and more accessible to participate in restaurants instead of creating new barriers. As a mayor, I would work for a year -round restaurant outdoors to ensure that restaurants can benefit from the program completely.

Similarly, open streets showed the New York the potential to reinterpret public areas and make our city more secure and more accessible by giving people the urgently needed space to walk, bike and gather and at the same time reduce the traffic violations for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers. Despite its clear advantages, the program was drastically reduced – only 20 miles from 83 miles to his climax to date. As a mayor, I will restore open streets and expand to ensure that the New Yorkers can benefit from more secure, lively streets in all five districts.

Jessica Ramos, Senator of Queens

I am deeply committed to eating outdoors, but the current program is not processed. Around 1,800 of 2,400 applications were approved from March, and you have to ask how many other restaurants have skipped the application process as a whole. It is in the interest of everyone to help our restaurants – these are some of the last companies that keep our commercial corridors alive and our shop fronts at the age of Amazon.

The expansion of restaurants outdoors and open streets requires a mayor who can bring people together, even if conversations are difficult. My background in the labor movement has taught me that difficult conversations are best dealt with through an open door, an honest dialogue and clear principles. New Yorkers deserve to be heard and to understand why these changes take place and how they benefit everyone. Building consensus is the only way to make these programs successful.

Brad Lander, City Compotroller

As a mayor, I will expand and improve you. Most recently, my office sounded the alarm bell in the mistakes of the Adams Administration to effectively implement the new version of the outdoor dining program. The restaurant scene in New York City survived and bloomed through the pandemic due to the food outdoors, with over 12,000 restaurants participating. But then the town hall and the city council over -regulated the program (especially dandruff all year round). And now the Adams administration can absolutely not approved these permits and leave many restaurants in the cold.

As a mayor, I will work with the Council to make it easier and easier to eat outdoors outdoors faster and easier, so that more restaurants can remain open all year round and maximize the seats during pedestrian traffic. As a report recently stipulated in the compatroller office, my priorities in the negotiation of these changes will exist: a) make it permanently – for street cafes that correspond to the design standards and enable winter housings to ensure the safety and protection of customers and employees. b) The application process faster and simpler implementation A 30-day processing time plan for applications from the food, upgrade the application technology and request personal applications and increase technical support in several languages. c) maximize the seating of the restaurant and keep space for pedestrian traffic by returning the old release standards of the decade of half of the sidewalk width or eight foot, depending on which space is larger for maximizing the seat. d) Make sure that the city has the resources and capacities you need to not only check and process applications, but also to help the restaurants.

I am also a big fan of the Open Streets and Neighborhood Plaza programs. As a mayor, I will ensure that Dot's Office of Livable Streets is able to work out open street applications efficiently and enable the agency to work with intermediaries in order to facilitate community -related organizations that are considered to create “game streets” and build on the work of buddy.

Zohran Mamdani, meeting member from Queens

Yes. First, I support the production of a year -round program outdoors. The outdoor food not only brought liveliness and joy into the streets of the New York City, but promoted our economy and promoted small companies – the heart of this city. I would also remove the unnecessary and cumbersome design restrictions on restaurants and optimize the process through which restaurants and cafés can eat outdoors.

Second, open streets are a critical program that I would also expand. One way to achieve this is to bring school roads to every school in the city and to create more structured playing time outdoors, a smoother and safer arrival and pick -up times, space for after -school programs and community meetings, improvement in air quality and more. This can easily be done by changing the program by one by one in which the schools are joined to you in which they are automatically inscribed (unless they choose for the cancellation). A number of interventions are required to support other open streets – complete closure and limited local access programs. First of all, the partner organizations that operate open streets must be made available to much more city financing.

The reimbursement grants managed by DOT are currently limited to open roads to EUR 20,000 per year. Open Street partners can simply not carry out robust pedestrian programs for a whole year with such limited funds. All over the world, cities have a multiple of $ 700,000 (CAN) available in pedestrian programs one-monthly (CAN) directs for dealer associations that operate car-free roads, and Paris is still planning to invest € 300 million in order to create more than 100 hectares of pedestrian areas. In addition to increases in LUSTERS and increasing diseases. The use of infrastructures to the pedestrian road instead of temporarily doing this, the work and operating costs associated with open streets will significantly reduce and make the program much more sustainable. To add all of this, I would explore a regular pedestrian program on Sundays and public holidays and be inspired by Bogota and Mexico city.

Whitney Tilson

Yes. Open streets improve the quality of life. And eat outdoors where traffic and road traffic help to fight.