Some NYC restaurant owners upset by new outdoor dining shed rules

The whole thing was a clown show that never should’ve happened!

Awesome. Took up space not only on roads but sidewalks too.

Street is not your property. I can also use street as my own outdoor space if allowed

The owner has got balls to play the victim. He basically expanded his floorspace for free and now he's crying now that the city wants the space back. Boo hoo 😂

Guy doubled his business, but he seems not to understand that he did it by squatting on public property. To add insult to injury, he claims to have built out on top of that property. Did he have the proper permits, I wonder? Just another selfish crybaby with an wildly inappropriate sense of entitlement.

Enough is enough. The streets are too crowded. What else they want?

Typical blue city regulations !

Stupid rules....just as likely to get covid in those structures as inside the restaurant...total scam

Your sheds are disgusting! Homeless and migrants do everything in there! ❤❤❤❤

Finally we get our parking back.

You never owned the street. How are you complaining FOH

New Yawk New Yawk

Charge them $10.000 grand a month and see how fast they give up the space.

I go to Nick's all the time. Had there been an approval process for unusual structures coupled with proper permit fees, the community board would likely have approved this one. Nick's is a neighborhood standard with quality food and great variety. The interior is just too small to accommodate all that wish to eat there. Now more people will be driving to who-knows-where. The inflexibility and lack of imagination on the part of local government is astounding. A lot of people, in all neighborhoods, who can not travel much enjoyed being out of their stuffy apartments watching the world go by. If its okay for virtually every street to be a parking lot, then is not appropriate for outdoor dining to be more than a crummy bistro table under a wobbly umbrella?

Oh well should of thought about all of this

Can the sheep take their masks off 🐑

Didn't have it before the pandemic and you did fine.

And dude has the nerve to say that he just lost 50% of HIS restaurant... so he owns the streets and the sidewalks 😂...

Yay goodbye to the bs mess… nasty restaurants anyway 💯 keep y’all nastyness indoors 💯💯💯💯

Are they going to pay rents to the city for the sidewalk space so our NYC income tax rates would go down?

Great!!! Thanks!!! I MAKE SURE I'LL NEVER EAT THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is great, pay for it if you want it, I wish I could build a rent free shack on public streets.

They've milked this for 4+ years.
Enough.

It's almost winter. Nobody is out in the winter.

It's everywhere

"I lost 50% of my customers..."
Dude built an entire restaurant on the street and is complaining when asked to take it down.
Smh.

REDESIGN THE INTERIOR OF YOUR RESTAURANT. Come on don’t be stupid. WHAT YOUR GONNA BE SPENDING ON THE SHED YOU COULD BE SPENDING IT WELL IN RENOVATION THE INTERIOR OF YOUR BUSINESS. What was you doing before COVID? Think of that.
DONT RUN ON EMOTION.
That’s the problem EVERYTHING IS EMOTIONAL FOR PEOPLE. Get a GRIP

It's a public street not your property. By that logic if I go to home Depot and buy a shed and plop it down on the street should I get to live there rent-free? Get out of here. You should have known that it wasn't going to be a permanent thing and it's your fault for making it a more permanent structure.

They should’ve been down two years ago they lucky they got this much time out of it

These complaints about outdoor dining are pure nonsense. NYC streets don’t belong to cars, and they sure as hell shouldn’t be reserved for free parking for a handful of whiny drivers. Most New Yorkers don’t even own cars, yet our public space has been hijacked for decades to appease a small, entitled minority. Outdoor dining finally gave that space back to the people, turning dead asphalt into vibrant, much-needed third spaces in a city desperate for places to gather and connect.

Crying about "losing parking" or "milking it" is ridiculous. Parking a car on the street serves one person; outdoor dining brought life, jobs, and community to entire neighborhoods. If streets are "too crowded," it’s because cars dominate every inch of them—not because of some tables and chairs. If anything, outdoor dining proved we need fewer cars, not fewer places to eat.

Public space is for people, not for your precious parking spot. Get over it.

It looked like downtown Bangladesh.

Restaurant owners cry and I get it, but they don’t care about how their outdoor dining areas take away parking space which causes cars to park in bike lanes forcing micromobility riders into traffic, jamming roads causing congestion and unsafe road conditions. It affects people negatively but they only care about the money. Sure the city can make a little ore compromise for them but the extravagant seating areas gotta go.

Not worth it and people don’t use them anymore

I'd rather have outdoor dining sheds on the street, instead of cars, traffic, and parking.

Get those eyesores out of there already

He's going to do fine without the extra outdoor space he didn't have before the pandemic in the first place. Who's eating outside in the cold? It's ridiculous.

During the pandemic, they could only have so many people inside because of social distancing and such. So they got outdoor dining to compensate for the loss. After all this, we are crammed into restaurants again like sardines AND they do the same with outdoor dining. Now the city wants its sidewalks, parking space and bike lanes back that it LENT to these restaurateurs but they start crying foul.

You know what is really foul, those rat haven s*** hole structures that block everybody from using them. Most look absolutely atrocious because they were never intended to be permanent structures and they knew that. How many times I have had to swerve into a car lane because one of those monstrosities is on the bike lane or have to zig zag through staff coming to serve patrons outside. The most hilarious one was on the upper East side where one restaurant left literally 2 feet of space for pedestrians who couldn't pass each other when walking opposite ways. All while having to elbow people sitting there.
Finally this wild west of shacks is coming to and and good riddance.

It was always temporary, we need the parking

This sucks. I get people need to park but these are so much nicer than having everybody's sh*tbox lined up and down block. We need to build more communal parking!

No heatreacheroushellteracism staff NYC 😢👎😷

Respectfully that outdoor dining setup was more of an annex to that building. Wayyy overdone.

Anyone who isn’t a business owner really can’t talk. When Covid hit and the government forced everyone indoors and businesses began failing they had no choice but to improvise that came at great costs & time with extortion vibes through loans by the government just to keep their business afloat. Citizens didn’t help either with their wars of the masks BS putting even more pressure on businesses. So the government was allowed to shove the entire country into the dirt and those who dug out faster than others now has to go back into the dirt because how dare they climb to gasp for air. lockdown cost jobs and closures so there should be compensations and everyone in this over capacity vehicle city can continue fighting for parking and getting tickets as any other normal day. Since when the city of lawlessness decided to add 3 tear drops of rules & conscious to their Starbucks to say the sidewalks aren’t businesses property we know that.

Yeah get those ugly things down

how did you do it before covid ????

Finally

Swiss Miss with marshmallows 😢

If they so upset then they should move out of NY period. Take your businesses to other states that needed. Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming etc

Man get those damn eye sores off the damn street

I have a solution. Mandatory minimum tip of 30%, 35% for average service, 40% for above average service x'D

So what did you do before the shed was built?