“Dining and public spatial experiences have forever been altered as one outcome of the Covid pandemic. Collected and solicited stories, essays and musings which frame unique points of view both in support of and in opposition to the implementation of temporal spaces are assembled here.”
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THE GREAT OUTDOORS
In the early days of pandemic outdoor dining, New Yorkers were lucky to find the shade and shelter of an umbrella…
Deborah SCHNEIDERMAN and Liliya DZIS
Due to the constraints placed in response to the global coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, our interiority has become convoluted. The near elimination of typical gathering places, the restrictions on the number of those who can gather in them,…
Sophia CHANG
As New York inches back to reopening more and more businesses, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention issued a report…
Jake OFFENHARTZ
Seven people were injured, including two children, after a chain-reaction crash in Midtown, Manhattan decimated an outdoor dining structure and sent debris ying onto the sidewalk…
Eater Staff
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurants throughout the city have begun to close to curb the spread of the virus…
Tanay WAREKAR
More details are now out on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s New York reopening plan — with restaurants put into “phase 3,” behind construction and real estate services…
Tanay WAREKAR
Gov. Andrew Cuomo finally unveiled plans for a return to dining-in at the state’s restaurants and bars after weeks of calls from restaurant owners for some type of guidance…
Tanay WAREKAR
A chronicle of the unimaginable toll the pandemic had on restaurants and bars, including how many transformed to survive
William LI
From chalets to yurts, New York restaurants are getting creative when it comes to building outdoor dining options.
Tanay WAREKAR
With more New Yorkers crowding outside bars and restaurants over the past couple of weekends, there are growing calls from both restaurateurs and City Council members…
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Julie CRESWELL and Priya KRISHNA
Diners are flocking back this summer, but owners still have trouble hiring, stocking kitchens and paying rent. And an uncertain autumn looms.
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Canadian Centre for Ocupational Health and Safety
Diners are flocking back this summer, but owners still have trouble hiring, stocking kitchens and paying rent. And an uncertain autumn looms…
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Allison J PERSING, Benjamin ROBERTS, Jason T LOTTER, Eric RUSSMAN, Jennifer PIERCE
In 2020, many cities closed indoor dining to curb rising COVID-19 cases. While restaurants in warmer climates were able to serve outdoors year-round, restaurants in colder climates…
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Han WEN
With the long-lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is critically important that restaurateurs understand predictors of consumers’ dining behaviors to better foster strategies to recover their revenue during the re- opening stage…
Justine GOLATA
Outdoor dining has become a NYC staple at this point. And as the winter surge continues, there’s no shortage of restaurants offering creative cabins, bubbles, glasshouses, igloos, and yurts to safely dine out!
Robert SIETSEMA
In the middle of April, one month after the restaurant shutdown in the wake of the pandemic, Chinatown had reached its lowest ebb. Some customers had earlier abandoned this important…
Erika ADAMS and Tanay WAREKAR
With ever-growing calls to urgently address the need for outdoor dining in New York City, the City Council introduced new legislation Thursday…
Tanay WAREKAR
More NYC restaurants are reopening for takeout and delivery on a weekly basis — and some are adopting more creative, relatively untested strategies in the hopes of easing diners’…
Luke FOURTNEY
Renewed protections for restaurant and bar owners are on the way. On Wednesday, City Council voted to extend a measure that protects restaurant and bar owners who have not been…
Ryan SUTTON and Tanay WAREKAR
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a day after rebuffing Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to shut down non-essential businesses like restaurants in parts of Brooklyn and Queens with spiking COVID-19 infections…
Ryan SUTTON
President Donald Trump signed into law on Friday a $2 trillion novel coronavirus relief bill, an action that’s as necessary for the larger economy…
Tanay WAREKAR
In a move to offer some protections to a restaurant industry that’s reeling from the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the City Council voted…
Tanay WAREKAR
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacted an unimaginable toll on the restaurant industry. Since the state-mandated shutdown in March this year, more than 1,000 NYC restaurants have permanently closed,…
Stella S YI , Shahmir H ALI, Rienna G RUSSO, Victoria FOSTER, Ashley RADEE, Stella CHONG, Felice TSUI, Julie KRANICK, David LEE, Valerie IMBRUCE, Tamar Adjoian MEZZECCA
A systematic assessment of the effect of COVID-19 on the food retail environment…
Tanay WAREKAR
NYC restaurants received a temporary reprieve over the weekend when Gov. Andrew Cuomo postponed the sales tax deadline. Initially due today, the sales tax deadline has now been extended…
US Fire Administration
This page provides fire and life safety considerations for authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) and building owners on outdoor and pop-up dining establishments during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Erika ADAMS
Two days before indoor dining was originally planned to expand to 50 percent capacity, NYC restaurants remain in flux on whether the city will actually go through with the measure on November 1…
Ginia BELLAFANTE
Ellen Koenigsberg has owned a vintage clothing store on Ludlow Street for 20 years, a feat so remarkable it puts you in mind of the runner who maintains a lightning pace well into middle age, past serial injuries…
Bradley BEREITSCHAFT and Daniel SCHELLER
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to transform lives and ways of living across the globe, it is becoming increasingly clear that adaptations involving both physical and institutional infrastructure are warranted.
Fox 5 NY Staff
NEW YORK - For many restaurants in New York City, outdoor dining was a lifeline during the heart of the pandemic. And due to the popularity of al fresco dining on the streets, New York City is aiming to make it permanent…
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Beatriz COLOMINA
A woman who tested positive with the coronavirus is brought to the University of Nebraska Medical Center on Friday, March . She was transferred from Omaha's Methodist Hospital in an isolation pod inside…
Tanay WAREKAR and Erika ADAMS
At the third and final presidential debate on Thursday night, the state of the NYC restaurant economy came up as the candidates discussed the economy and business operations during the pandemic…
Ryan SUTTON
FollowingFollowing months of political impasse and multiple legislative recesses, during which restaurant hiring tapered off, long-term unemployment more than tripled, nearly 8 million Americans fell into poverty…
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Ryan SUTTON and Tanay WAREKAR
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will finally allow indoor dining in New York City starting September 30, six months after the COVID-19 shutdown devastated the city’s hospitality industry…
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Luke FORTNEY
Neighborhoods in Manhattan received the most social distancing complaints of any borough for the third weekend in a row, according to city data analyzed by Patch. The city received more than 745…
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City News Service
LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- The Los Angeles City Council took a major step toward making the COVID-19 "al fresco' …
Tanay WAREKAR
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that the city will extend the ongoing Open Restaurants program — which allows restaurants and bars to expand seat…
Erika ADAMS and Tanay WAREKAR
New York restaurants and bars that hold liquor licenses will have to abide by a new nightly curfew, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced today, as the state and region grapples with a growing uptick in COVID-19 cases…
Tanay WAREKAR and Erika ADAMS
Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed Wednesday that New York City’s return to indoor dining — which was scheduled to begin on Monday, July 6 — has been postponed indefinitely. The decision is a response…
Pete WELLS
Last September, a pair of cabins the color of spaghetti sauce went up in the West Village roadbed outside the Italian American restaurant…
Serena DAI
It’s the latest move in hopes of curbing the spread of new coronavirus…
Luke FORTNEY
Close to 1,000 NYC restaurants and bars have permanently closed since March, but more accurate documentation of the pandemic’s toll could take months or years…
NYC Planning
The NYC 3D Model by Community District is a publicly available model consisting of every building in New York City present in 2014…
FOX 5 NY Staff
NEW YORK - Outdoor dining may soon become a permanent fixture of New York City’s dining scene…
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Tanay WAREKAR
The city has released an interactive map that lets businesses and residents see if their addresses fall within COVID-19 hot spots in Brooklyn and Queens…
Simon van ZUYLEN-WOOD
Long after the shutdown of indoor dining and the advent of socially distanced picnicking; after takeout cocktails and…
Johannes EISELE
Owners including Tom Colicchio take extra steps to diffuse panic and protect against sales losses as the situation unfolds
Alicia DIAZ and Kate KRADER
Outdoor sheds, igloos and heated cabanas — hallmarks of New York City’s pandemic-era restaurant scene — may soon be a thing of the past…
Eyewitness News
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The biggest challenges to outdoor dining before the pandemic were cost, red tape in the application process, and zoning restrictions in the outer boroughs…
Tanay WAREKAR
A pair of City Council bills set to pass later today will protect the city’s fast food workers from being fired without cause and require chain restaurants to take employment seniority into account…
Tanay WAREKAR and Erika ADAMS
The decision has been expected for weeks with the rise in cases, but without federal aid, it will still come as a major blow to NYC restaurants…
Tanay WAREKAR
Sceney Soho spot Cipriani Downtown is among the establishments that saw their liquor licenses suspended
Scott MANSFIELD
San Francisco, along with most U.S. cities, is now dotted with expanded patio seating, newly built parklets, and other creative options to dine outdoors…
NYC DOT
New York City’s Open Streets program transforms streets into public space open to all…
Erika ADAMS
Just under six weeks after NYC restaurants were allowed to reopen their dining rooms at 25 percent capacity…
Brielle Tomassetti
NEW YORK - Outdoor dining may soon become a permanent fixture of New York City’s dining scene…
Erika ADAMS
Following City Council approval last month, NYC restaurants and bars can now start adding a surcharge of up to 10 percent to diners’…
Gary HE
It’s been one month since every restaurant in New York City got turned into a ghost kitchen, and to a person observing from home, the industry seems to be adjusting...
Erika ADAMS
Several NYC restaurants have banded together to sue Gov. Andrew Cuomo — again — over the state’s indoor dining ban in New York City, the Real Deal reports…
Ryan SUTTON and Serena DAI
Restaurants will be able to extend al fresco service to parking spaces and even further into certain closed streets…
NY TIMES
New York City’s Open Restaurants program bolsters our city’s vibrant street life, provides millions of dollars in revenue to…
Arthur CHI’EN
NEW YORK - Outdoor dining in New York City is scheduled to end on October 30, but some officials are now calling for it to be extended indefinitely…
Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center
The COVID-19 pandemic led to major shifts in the way businesses, especially restaurants, operate; not the least among these changes…
Ramon PADILLA and Stephen J. BEARD
COVID-19 ushered in a new era of outdoor dining as struggling restaurants tried to stay in business while minimizing guests’ chances of infection…
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Christina MORALES and Victoria PETERSEN
When Stephen Werther, an owner and the chef of the West Village restaurant and market Suprema Provisions, opened his business…
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Erika ADAMS and Tanay WAREKAR
The data, which draws on just 46,000 voluntary responses to contract tracing data over a three-month period, was released at the same time…
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Nicole HONG
It was an unexpectedly raucous event. About 100 people packed a hearing in Manhattan’s West Village in the summer, eager to vent about an issue dividing neighborhoods across New York City…
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Hanzhang YANG
The purpose of this research is to better understand the conflicts developed by New York City's Open Restaurants program, which intends to help the city's hospitality industry…
Brielle TOMASSETTI
NEW YORK - New York City’s "Open Restaurants" program saved thousands of jobs during the height of the COVID crisis. However…
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Tanay WAREKAR
While a few big chains have reported getting federal loans for small businesses, some small restaurants in NYC are still waiting on their funds…
The Official Website of the City of New York
Overhaul of Construction Shed Rules Will Get Them off Sidewalks More Quickly, While Redesigning and Reimagining Them to…
Tanay WAREKAR
More than a dozen restaurants citywide have shutdown for the winter with the hopes to reopen with warmer weather in the spring…
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Daniel L. DOCTOROFF
Like most everyone, I love New York City’s Open Restaurants program. Started in June 2020, it allows restaurants to serve customers…
Rahul JAIN
The restaurant industry is essential to New York City’s social and economic fabric. From small, family-owned restaurants and food carts to four-star…
James RAMSAY
All the brouhaha (https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/open-streets-are- here-stay-not-everyones-thrilled-about-it) around the…
Diana BUDDS
They’ve been repainted, reinforced, moved around, and sliced in half. But through three summers and nearly three winters, the nine outdoor-dining…
Noëmie CARRANT and Emily WILSON
Spring is almost upon us, and you know what that means: It’s prime time for alfresco dining. From Greenpoint all the way to the Upper West Side…
Teresa PRIOLO
Before outdoor eateries were a thing in New York City, Peggy Taylor was a busy Harlem tour guide. She could never have imagined being unemployed or seeing…
Victoria PETERSEN
The Cold Is Coming. Will New Yorkers Still Eat Outdoors? Frigid weather, a new coronavirus variant and indoor service will put outdoor dining to the test this winter…
Tanay WAREKAR
New York City will reopen today after a nearly three-month-long shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which killed nearly 22,000 of the city’s residents and left hundreds of thousands without…
Erika ADAMS
The New York State Liquor Authority has released updated regulations for outdoor dining and takeout at restaurants that has city politicians and industry leaders in an uproar…
Serena DAI
More info is out on the state’s changes in liquor license laws in light of new COVID-19 measures…
NY State Restaurant Asscciation
According to the most recent survey released by the New York State Restaurant Association,New York restaurants…
World Cities Culture Forum
Emma ORLOW
Plus, Chelsea Hotel restaurant El Quijote reopens — and more intel…
Erika ADAMS
“The facts, the science, the data, are just screaming at us right now that we have a huge challenge and we have to beat…
Reuven FENETON, Maggie HICKS and Bruce Golding
“The facts, the science, the data, are just screaming at us right now that we have a huge challenge and we have to beat…
Ryan SUTTON
Take-out and delivery will still be allowed, and state liquor laws will change so that booze can be consumed off-premises…
Briella TOMASSETTI
NEW YORK - New outdoor dining guidelines released last night, including a rule that prohibited customers from using the…
Tanay WAREKAR
NYC’s first snowstorm-related outdoor dining pause is here. The city’s sanitation department issued its first snow alert…
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Kathleen SQUIERES
My name is Robert Stipe and I live in the West Village. I have been a member of the local Community Board for 25 years…
FOX 5 NY
NEW YORK - Outdoor dining in New York City isn’t just saving restaurants from going under, it’s helping to keep businesses in the flower district alive as well…
Pete WELLS
Single-table huts, cabins and bubbles have sprung up across the city. A safer or more pleasant way to eat outdoors? Well, maybe…
Matt AUSTIN
As COVID-19 cases surge, reservations are dropping at some restaurants. Now, outdoor dining is the hot ticket as winter weather takes hold…
Jeanette SETTEMBRE
Doctors are bursting the bubble on outdoor dining pop-up pods. The coronavirus dining trend of inflatable plastic bubbles that keep diners enclosed while eating…
Tanay WAREKAR and Erika ADAMS
Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed Thursday that New York City would move into the second phase of reopening on Monday, June 22,…
Luke FORTNEY and Erika ADAMS
The bill would require streetside outdoor dining structures to come down during winter months and allow for sidewalk seating year-round…
NY State
These guidelines apply to all restaurants and food services establishments, including food trucks and other food concessions…
Peter HOFFMAN
Few business sectors have experienced such violent swings between feast and famine in the last year as restaurants. Early in the pandemic, there was a demand problem…
Jodi GOLDBERG
After dozens of restaurants in the Village of Farmingdale moved their tables and chairs outside for dining on Friday night…
Aaron TIMMS
Introduced at the height of the pandemic, these ad-hoc sidewalk structures prompted a host of worthy questions about the use of public space.
Ginia BELLAFANTE
On Wednesday afternoon, at the height of the lunch hour, Nick Accardi sat in one of his three Hell’s Kitchen restaurants, Tavola, on Ninth…