let's not rush the sainthood. Restaurateurs are the biggest scammers in this country. They lie on their income reporting to avoid taxes, use their waitstaff to subsidize wage costs and a whole slew of unsavoury practices.
The outdoor dining was supposed to only be a Covid thing. So people will be out in fresh air, as compared to an e closed restaurant. How are these restaurants acting like they were getting by before this? This was only used as a deterent because social distancing didn't low people inside for those times. But those times are over, and nothing in NYC is free.
True. But also not our problem. If they cannot afford to swing it without outdoor dining. Tough. Just another failed business there are millions of them.
You are right. it's NOT our problem. Every restaurant in the video shown was around for at least 8 years some 25 years before COVID and did well. The gray-haired guy saying spending that much money just to break even is worth it???? That's just bad business. Work on your menu and hospitality! He was busy for years prior to COVID.
You’re deeply confused, it’s not over. The city has new laws that the permanent structures from covid must be replaced with new structures that can be broken down and stored over the Winter until the next Spring. All of these structures will be back next spring, they will just be new ones that can be stored for next winter. You seem very bitter and desperate to see other people hurting hahaha, fix that
@Tortilla.Reform grow up, the fake plague is gone. Its time to give back the streets to the people that need to park their cars, make way for sanitation to do their jobs, and free up the sidewalks needed to walk on. No free rides here kiddo. This aint 1930's france with cobblestone roads, with tables willynilly arranged in the streets for yall to supp on wine and cheese.
If it's regulated, not blocking public access, and the proper fees are paid to the city, then I don't see a problem in theory. However, I don't live in New York City.....
It's supposedly regulated BUT NOT enforced. A sidewalk is for people to WALK, not push their way though extra "illegal" restaurant tables (along the curb and tree pits) and dogs laying on the sidewalk next to diners.
They should adjust the fees according to the density and foot traffic of the area. Like the Astoria restaurant said it becomes cost prohibitive for smaller restaurants. The rat issue is because trash is placed on the ground. That is abating with the use of mandatory trash bins. Outdoor dining really makes a neighborhood feel homely. I hope they find ways to amend the program so that it is equitable.
As a person who was a waiter those sheds made a TON of money for the restaurants.... Its a lifesaver in warm months. The people wonder why so many restsursnts open and close so quickly.....🙄
4 of the 6 rat shacks have been taken down on that block. You should have seen what was under the floor boards! Not to mention the chatter noise when there WAS anyone sitting there. Not a good selling point for residential real estate on these blocks.
When I walk around alot of these sheds I see have become storage for the restaurats. I see supplies, chairs, tables all stacked into the sheds. I also see sheds that are falling apart and not in use at all. I've seen the homeless sleeping in them overnight. You also have the sheds that are taking up parking spaces.
@@JayRay-p6v I can educate you on what’s actually happening, because your suggestion is silly. You’re suggesting small businesses get access to the chance to make more money with extra seating, based on whether or not they are already busy enough to qualify for the same opportunity to make more money? Hahaha. All restaurants have to take down the permanent structures built during Covid, and *replace* them with removable seasonal structures that will go back up in April, and put back in storage next winter. Happy to help you understand what’s going on hahaha
Correct. Seems like you and me are the only ones who watched the video. $15K in "licensing fees" for something that was already there for FREE?? If that doesn't show you how bad Big Government is, I don't know what will. They're literally making up new BS regulations to squeeze more money out of these people. The COVID regulations were already fine as is, and allowed the restaurants to increase their profit margins, which meant higher tax revenue anyway. But since NYC is poorly managed, the government BLOWS through all that cash and now needs to find NEW ways to generate money in existing industries and things. It's why we also have "Congestion Pricing" under the guise of "The environment". NY needs a red wave
Outdoor dining areas around the city take up a lot of parking space and in some cases actually occupy parts of bike lanes. So cars with no other space park in bike lanes making it exceptionally dangerous for users of micromobility by shrinking the roads and in some cases forcing bikers into lanes of traffic. Some dining areas also make it hard for emergency responders to find space to park to respond to emergencies without blocking oncoming traffic which creates more dangers. Of course greed and the want of money blinds these restaurant owners to all of this and they could care less, the only thing they care about is money not the safety of NY’ers who drive or use micromobility. Now watch, once all if these structures come down and parking spaces open up, fewer cars will occupy bike lanes, emergency responders will have easier access to buildings, and less accidents will happen overall. Screw these business owners, the safety of NY’ers comes first not their wallets. Cry more.
Probably the biggest action the city can take to improve public safety of New Yorkers is to reduce felonious assaults. Compared to 2010, felonious assaults are UP over 72%.
As a native New Yorker I’m so glad the sheds are going. YES, New York has always had a rat problem, but these things HEIGHTEN it tremendously. They are filthy and a rats play den during the night. The only folks I’ve seen advocate for these sheds are gentrifiers who want to change everything about NYC. Go to Seattle or some ish.
um hate to burst your BUBBLE but you prefer the rats under the viewing glass instead or have you missed whats really going on in the stores after hours, those are not PEPPER CORNS
walked Broadway from 40th to 28th street for a meeting and was stunned by the disappearance of the garment district; it was a boardwalk of sheds. beautiful, but a LOT. plus, milling delivery personnel waiting for pickups
Promises piled on top of empty promises. They wont really be gone because the city is *still* allowing permits to be requested for a price that the restuarants can clearly easily afford.
CHEAP compared to the amount of money he spends for the same amount of space indoors. If he was going to lose or actually just break even, he wouldn't do it. He will do 15k in biz in just one week off those tables.
@@theboringchannel2027 But it was FREE already! They're asking them to destroy the existing ones, pay $15K, and put another one right back up. This is extortion and more government bloat. New regulations that don't actually serve the public, but only serve to generate more money for the government to blow through again. This is no different than the Congestion Pricing initiative. You take something that already exists and is free, create some B's new "regulations" that now require you to tax or sell "licenses" to people, in order to squeeze more cash out of your constituents. This is criminal
@@theboringchannel2027 the outdoor space actually competes with the indoor space. They are many instances where the outdoor spaces are filled and the indoor spaces have no one. If he doesn't make the investment and his competitors in the neighborhood have outdoor spaces, he loses his customers.
@@richh4230 outdoor space competes with indoor space of OTHER restaurants WITHOUT outdoor space, not his own space. If he had no outdoor space, those dollars would not have migrated to his indoor seats, they would have went to another restaurant with outdoor seating.
4 of the 6 rat shacks have been taken down on that block. You should have seen what was under the floor boards! Not to mention the chatter noise when there WAS anyone sitting there. Not a good selling point for residential real estate on these blocks.
Don’t let these restaurant owners cry poor. During COVID It was a great thing, but now they are just taking advantage of It (not that I blame them). A lot of these sheds are total eye sores and disrupt the flow of traffic on the street and the sidewalk. Many of these places will gladly pay the fee to keep them up, It pails in comparison to what they make from the extra square footage, some places essentially doubled or tripled the number of tables they had for free.
In most cases I've observed restaurants in this video EMPTY. with only sidewalk tables occupied. I've seen people hit by bikes, and rats running at night when I come home late..
Haven’t been in NYC in several years. Were these covered sheds in the street? 0:36, on the sidewalks? I thought NYC streets & sidewalks were narrow enough. & able to be locked and secured? so no one could steal their storage? & how could homeless people be sleeping in them if they were locked?
Don't get me wrong. I loved how some restaurants made them look so beautiful and a great vibe! But yes it's time to go. Ill miss it but its only a feeling to remember 💗
They're not going. The government is just charging them more money to keep them up now. They used to be free, now the government wants $15K in "licensing fees" to have them up. How is that not insane??
It’s coming back every April, new laws have businesses using sheds that can be broken down and stored for winter, and out back up for Spring through Summer. I work in a place that has these and they fill up despite the weather changing, it’s a massive money maker Edit: spring through fall
It’s always funny how entitled drivers are, everything is about you and your convenient parking space. Heaven forbid you walk an extra block hahaha, build the city around your needs alone
@ Urban and modern cities around the world are multi faceted and built for everyone, not *just* drivers, you are very deeply confused with that silly comment and your bias
@ it just shows your lack of knowledge about NYC’s infrastructure that was modernized by Robert Moses. Anyone that has a bit of knowledge about NYC’s history knows that Robert Moses made NYC car centric because he believed that was the epitome of progress and modernization. He rebuilt NYC. So not, it’s not my silly *checks notes* biased opinion. My only suggestion is to read and become a well-rounded person so you don’t make a fool out of yourself. Heck, I’ll even suggest reading material like “The Power Broker.”
Really? The congestion fee has been in the works since bloomberg. People in NYC still vote democrat. As long as NYC is infested with midwest far left progressives (courtesy of Rudy Giuliani) and now their children this will NEVER get better. Pre Rudy New Yorkers (even democrats) would have NEVER put up with this.
They're not being removed removed. The government is just telling them remove them so they can be charged $15K in "licensing fees" to put them right back up. It's just a scam. Government bleeding the people dry
the rats are running around and dancing on the tables all night - tables already pre-set with dishes and table clothes for the next day . I would never eat in one of these shacks and neither would anyone else if they witnessed this - Columbus Avenue is particularly lively for late night rat action.
These rat shacks in this video have been hit by cars, and tables knocked over at least 4 times. No one was sitting at the time, fortunately. People have been hit by bikes. Now 4 of the 6 rat shacks have been taken down on that block. You should have seen what was under the floor boards! Not to mention the chatter noise when there WAS anyone sitting there. Not a good selling point for residential real estate on these block.
The chaos that these sheds have brought to small neighborhoods needs to be acknowledged. From taking full blocks of parking space, narrowing small streets that made driving unsafe for both cars and pedestrians, the rats and roaches they were brewing, the eye sores in a neighborhood, etc. It had to end. If they really cared about revitalizing restaurants they should lower the cost of permits or give out waivers to restaurants who are struggling. But we know the City only want to make money one way.
@@theonlycaulfield They were cool, but tbh it causes a lot of congestion and mayhem w/ traffic. Before the sheds, the streets were able to be navigated easier and much more.
It is hell living above these outdoor restaurants. The extra noise is non-stop from May to October, 7 days a week - to the point where I can no longer open any window in my apartment. And the rats!! FYI: They are inside those sheds every night after hours all over the pre-set tables. The extra delivery trucks at 3am, 4am...Sysco trucks idling literally for hours outside my windows, sometimes one across the street from another.. The sheds did their job, but enough is enough. Restaurants have done very very well through it all - their nightly garbage output on the street is quadruple of what it was pre-Covid. Good for them, but the quality of life here has never been this bad. We desperately need to clean house & elect new city officials on all levels.
If a restaurant has more waste (particularly a restaurant) it means that it has a lot more waste and therefore isn't doing that well at all. I agree though, its time for the bad actors to go.
I personally love outdoor dining and do not mind common sense regulation around this, however, I also want to point out that the alternative to their being extra square footage for a business that provides a job, eyes on the street, and a pleasant experience is that that space will be used as free parking for the one and five people in Manhattan, who own cars, or are otherwise coming to Manhattan in a car. At minimum, I hope that the parking costs something overnight, and that any parking that could otherwise be outdoor dining is parking metered for fairness.
What's "Common sense regulations" to you exactly? The government wants these people to destroy their existing sheds, pay $15K in licensing fees, and rebuild these same EXACT sheds right back up. How is that common sense? That's just extortion.
so the city will be better off with one parking space for a beat up kia instead of the cool vibes given off by outdoor dining especially in summer. okay. seems like an overall negative for the city.
It's a shame that they won't allow them to be enclosed anymore because at least with the inclement weather coming and the intermittent days of good weather in between people might still actually want to sit outside and if you have outside dining that's all open to the elements they won't be able to anymore.
sheds were ridiculus. durin the pandemic, jewish resturants would just turn the entire outside of the resturant into sheds and just serve people in an enclosed "shed" to go around the restrictions. good riddance
But how does it benefit anyone to charge these people $15K to use something they've already been using anyway. Who does that $15K benefit exactly? You think the government is gonna spend that money wisely? You're an idiot. This is no different than congestion pricing.
restaurants just want to have more customers, well they need to rent out bigger spaces cause how tf you want the side walk and the street ontop of the indoor space
Bless this dude for his transparency 😢
What transparency? He didn’t make the laws, and he’s not benefiting from the laws. You’re not using that word correctly in the proper context.
I think the word you’re looking for is “Enlightenment”
let's not rush the sainthood. Restaurateurs are the biggest scammers in this country. They lie on their income reporting to avoid taxes, use their waitstaff to subsidize wage costs and a whole slew of unsavoury practices.
As a person who was a waiter those sheds made a TON of money for the restaurants....
Its a lifesaver in warm months.
Same. Losing the shed has us cutting staff despite being constantly busy despite bad weather
Without these being covered, who’s gonna eat in these from November through March. You can’t heat an uncovered area.
As a person who wasnt a waiter, who cares
The outdoor dining was supposed to only be a Covid thing. So people will be out in fresh air, as compared to an e closed restaurant.
How are these restaurants acting like they were getting by before this? This was only used as a deterent because social distancing didn't low people inside for those times. But those times are over, and nothing in NYC is free.
I wouldn't call sitting along the street breathing car and truck exhaust "fresh air". GO back to just having good food worth paying for!
The restaurant industry is VERY hard to make money from. The profits are VERY thin. Outdoor dining provided extra sitting.
True. But also not our problem. If they cannot afford to swing it without outdoor dining. Tough. Just another failed business there are millions of them.
You are right. it's NOT our problem. Every restaurant in the video shown was around for at least 8 years some 25 years before COVID and did well. The gray-haired guy saying spending that much money just to break even is worth it???? That's just bad business. Work on your menu and hospitality! He was busy for years prior to COVID.
Allow them extra seating - more tables, better for the business
Its over, cope with it!
You’re deeply confused, it’s not over. The city has new laws that the permanent structures from covid must be replaced with new structures that can be broken down and stored over the Winter until the next Spring. All of these structures will be back next spring, they will just be new ones that can be stored for next winter. You seem very bitter and desperate to see other people hurting hahaha, fix that
@Tortilla.Reform grow up, the fake plague is gone.
Its time to give back the streets to the people that need to park their cars, make way for sanitation to do their jobs, and free up the sidewalks needed to walk on.
No free rides here kiddo.
This aint 1930's france with cobblestone roads, with tables willynilly arranged in the streets for yall to supp on wine and cheese.
@Tortilla.Reform sorry self-entitled one, you are not relevent.
Get back in line, and pay your fair share
Public space should NOT be used by businesses.
public space should NOT be used for the storage of private vehicles.
Parking disruption
These rat shacks take up PAID METERED PUBLIC parking spaces. Income lost but the city!
If it's regulated, not blocking public access, and the proper fees are paid to the city, then I don't see a problem in theory. However, I don't live in New York City.....
It's supposedly regulated BUT NOT enforced. A sidewalk is for people to WALK, not push their way though extra "illegal" restaurant tables (along the curb and tree pits) and dogs laying on the sidewalk next to diners.
They should adjust the fees according to the density and foot traffic of the area. Like the Astoria restaurant said it becomes cost prohibitive for smaller restaurants. The rat issue is because trash is placed on the ground. That is abating with the use of mandatory trash bins. Outdoor dining really makes a neighborhood feel homely. I hope they find ways to amend the program so that it is equitable.
As a person who was a waiter those sheds made a TON of money for the restaurants....
Its a lifesaver in warm months. The people wonder why so many restsursnts open and close so quickly.....🙄
great! more space for human, less for rats
More space for cars! Yay...
@Django19 rather have people able to find parking then these dirty sheds that are rats and roach hives. Go back to the Midwest
@@Django19as it should be wtf are you on about?
you mean cars
4 of the 6 rat shacks have been taken down on that block. You should have seen what was under the floor boards! Not to mention the chatter noise when there WAS anyone sitting there. Not a good selling point for residential real estate on these blocks.
BOUT F-CKIN TIME.......
When I walk around alot of these sheds I see have become storage for the restaurats. I see supplies, chairs, tables all stacked into the sheds. I also see sheds that are falling apart and not in use at all. I've seen the homeless sleeping in them overnight. You also have the sheds that are taking up parking spaces.
And other sheds are in constant use for seating in busy restaurants
Probably lots of rats living underneath
@@Tortilla.Reformso then those busy restaurants can apply for the license and permits.. and the not so busy ones can take them down.
@@JayRay-p6v I can educate you on what’s actually happening, because your suggestion is silly. You’re suggesting small businesses get access to the chance to make more money with extra seating, based on whether or not they are already busy enough to qualify for the same opportunity to make more money? Hahaha. All restaurants have to take down the permanent structures built during Covid, and *replace* them with removable seasonal structures that will go back up in April, and put back in storage next winter. Happy to help you understand what’s going on hahaha
@@Tortilla.Reform thats not what I suggested at all. You are so lost. Lmao
Thank you
these nuisances have not been removed?
Another way for city to squeeze more money from NYC citizens
While people sit in the street, the restaurants are empty!
Correct. Seems like you and me are the only ones who watched the video. $15K in "licensing fees" for something that was already there for FREE?? If that doesn't show you how bad Big Government is, I don't know what will. They're literally making up new BS regulations to squeeze more money out of these people. The COVID regulations were already fine as is, and allowed the restaurants to increase their profit margins, which meant higher tax revenue anyway. But since NYC is poorly managed, the government BLOWS through all that cash and now needs to find NEW ways to generate money in existing industries and things. It's why we also have "Congestion Pricing" under the guise of "The environment".
NY needs a red wave
@@rjd3wineFalse.
?? You're not charged money for this unless you own a food establishment and choose to have outdoor dining on public space.
Yeah now the congestion pricing starts surprise
Very good point’ make room for the cars that’ll make tons of money, but financially hurt the people having to pay them’
Thank god these sheds are being removed. Its an ugly site. Most are abandoned or unkept. It disrupts traffic as well.
A nest for NYC rodents n critters
It disrupts parking of private vehicles
Outdoor dining areas around the city take up a lot of parking space and in some cases actually occupy parts of bike lanes. So cars with no other space park in bike lanes making it exceptionally dangerous for users of micromobility by shrinking the roads and in some cases forcing bikers into lanes of traffic. Some dining areas also make it hard for emergency responders to find space to park to respond to emergencies without blocking oncoming traffic which creates more dangers. Of course greed and the want of money blinds these restaurant owners to all of this and they could care less, the only thing they care about is money not the safety of NY’ers who drive or use micromobility.
Now watch, once all if these structures come down and parking spaces open up, fewer cars will occupy bike lanes, emergency responders will have easier access to buildings, and less accidents will happen overall. Screw these business owners, the safety of NY’ers comes first not their wallets. Cry more.
Probably the biggest action the city can take to improve public safety of New Yorkers is to reduce felonious assaults. Compared to 2010, felonious assaults are UP over 72%.
The bike lanes should be the next things to go....this is a city not a park. Didn't your mother teach you to keep your toys in the yard?
As a native New Yorker I’m so glad the sheds are going.
YES, New York has always had a rat problem, but these things HEIGHTEN it tremendously. They are filthy and a rats play den during the night.
The only folks I’ve seen advocate for these sheds are gentrifiers who want to change everything about NYC. Go to Seattle or some ish.
Exactly this is a city where people work and stuff happens not some quaint vacation spot
Shedshellter NYC staff are wicked 😢
um hate to burst your BUBBLE but you prefer the rats under the viewing glass instead or have you missed whats really going on in the stores after hours, those are not PEPPER CORNS
walked Broadway from 40th to 28th street for a meeting and was stunned by the disappearance of the garment district; it was a boardwalk of sheds. beautiful, but a LOT. plus, milling delivery personnel waiting for pickups
Promises piled on top of empty promises.
They wont really be gone because the city is *still* allowing permits to be requested for a price that the restuarants can clearly easily afford.
$15,000!?
CHEAP compared to the amount of money he spends for the same amount of space indoors.
If he was going to lose or actually just break even, he wouldn't do it.
He will do 15k in biz in just one week off those tables.
@@theboringchannel2027 But it was FREE already! They're asking them to destroy the existing ones, pay $15K, and put another one right back up. This is extortion and more government bloat. New regulations that don't actually serve the public, but only serve to generate more money for the government to blow through again. This is no different than the Congestion Pricing initiative. You take something that already exists and is free, create some B's new "regulations" that now require you to tax or sell "licenses" to people, in order to squeeze more cash out of your constituents. This is criminal
NYC is a money maker
@@theboringchannel2027 the outdoor space actually competes with the indoor space. They are many instances where the outdoor spaces are filled and the indoor spaces have no one. If he doesn't make the investment and his competitors in the neighborhood have outdoor spaces, he loses his customers.
@@richh4230 outdoor space competes with indoor space of OTHER restaurants WITHOUT outdoor space, not his own space.
If he had no outdoor space, those dollars would not have migrated to his indoor seats, they would have went to another restaurant with outdoor seating.
What about the rats?
They'll have to learn to fend for themselves in the wild
Rats come free, compliments of the house.
Rats Matter🤣
They'll have to return to their jobs in city government.
4 of the 6 rat shacks have been taken down on that block. You should have seen what was under the floor boards! Not to mention the chatter noise when there WAS anyone sitting there. Not a good selling point for residential real estate on these blocks.
Except for Little Italy, many restaurants use it as outdoor storage, not for dining.
Can you actually prove your claim with facts? Or is it just “Source: trust me, bro”
I don’t like those sheds they impede traffic.
Don’t let these restaurant owners cry poor. During COVID It was a great thing, but now they are just taking advantage of It (not that I blame them). A lot of these sheds are total eye sores and disrupt the flow of traffic on the street and the sidewalk. Many of these places will gladly pay the fee to keep them up, It pails in comparison to what they make from the extra square footage, some places essentially doubled or tripled the number of tables they had for free.
Ah yes when it was completely logical to think you can't get covid with a mask or vaccine or when eating you don't need a mask 2+2=5 logic
I love sacrificing walkability and community for more cars and traffic! YIPPIIEEE!
Outdoor dining means more customer seating... some businesses will take hit
In most cases I've observed restaurants in this video EMPTY. with only sidewalk tables occupied. I've seen people hit by bikes, and rats running at night when I come home late..
@@rjd3wineBecause most restaurants are not open till late and close by nightfall
@@PermanentHigh TO clarify. Not much happening in the rat shacks DURING business hours. Sidewalk tables DO have guests. The rats run after hours.
Finally!!!!!!!!!🎉
What a joke these were.
?? they’re cute but it’s just gross now with rats like you
@@BluePrada the zoo called. You're due back at 6.
Finally. Damn. Rats and clipping your mirrors…taking up parking. A lot of these places don’t maintain them.
Thank you Mayor
Remember all the rats would be there 😂😂😂
Expose their nests
Once those Dining Sheds Come Down....then the City will put City Bikes in those Spots 🤷
You are aware that CITI Bike is spelled like CITIbank?
Better than more parked cars. Drivers are so entitled they cry about having to walk an extra block like everyone else
Haven’t been in NYC in several years. Were these covered sheds in the street? 0:36, on the sidewalks? I thought NYC streets & sidewalks were narrow enough. & able to be locked and secured? so no one could steal their storage? & how could homeless people be sleeping in them if they were locked?
Don't get me wrong. I loved how some restaurants made them look so beautiful and a great vibe! But yes it's time to go. Ill miss it but its only a feeling to remember 💗
They're not going. The government is just charging them more money to keep them up now. They used to be free, now the government wants $15K in "licensing fees" to have them up.
How is that not insane??
It’s coming back every April, new laws have businesses using sheds that can be broken down and stored for winter, and out back up for Spring through Summer. I work in a place that has these and they fill up despite the weather changing, it’s a massive money maker
Edit: spring through fall
Good! There is absolutely no more need for them
Eyesores taking up much needed parking space and blocking sidewalk. Who wants to eat where honeless constantly passing by and harass you.
Harasshellter NYC staff are racist and dangerous 😢
About time! Need these for parking spaces.
The parking spaces are turned into bike lanes etc. it’s nyc. They hate us
It’s always funny how entitled drivers are, everything is about you and your convenient parking space. Heaven forbid you walk an extra block hahaha, build the city around your needs alone
@@Tortilla.Reformthis is an urban city. Go back to the 1700s to please you. Because modern NYC was built for cars
@ Urban and modern cities around the world are multi faceted and built for everyone, not *just* drivers, you are very deeply confused with that silly comment and your bias
@ it just shows your lack of knowledge about NYC’s infrastructure that was modernized by Robert Moses. Anyone that has a bit of knowledge about NYC’s history knows that Robert Moses made NYC car centric because he believed that was the epitome of progress and modernization. He rebuilt NYC. So not, it’s not my silly *checks notes* biased opinion. My only suggestion is to read and become a well-rounded person so you don’t make a fool out of yourself. Heck, I’ll even suggest reading material like “The Power Broker.”
The homeless won’t have anywhere to sleep or urinate!
A lot of parking coming back?
Too damn crowded. Whats with these weirdos wanting to be squished and sardined!? plus nobody wants to walk into the street to avoid them
fees upon fees .. tolls upon tolls .. tax upon tax .. making people's life more expensive is how you loose elections
Really? The congestion fee has been in the works since bloomberg. People in NYC still vote democrat. As long as NYC is infested with midwest far left progressives (courtesy of Rudy Giuliani) and now their children this will NEVER get better. Pre Rudy New Yorkers (even democrats) would have NEVER put up with this.
Its about time. All of it has to be removed asap. Parking spots are hard to get.
Noise for local residents often until 11pm. Want customers in your restaurant? Work on the food quality!
They're not being removed removed. The government is just telling them remove them so they can be charged $15K in "licensing fees" to put them right back up. It's just a scam. Government bleeding the people dry
why do you live in nyc if you’re so concerned about parking?
about freaking time
Now there's more room for scaffolding.
If y'all saw how the rats play in them at night, you wouldnt want to eat in them
the rats are running around and dancing on the tables all night - tables already pre-set with dishes and table clothes for the next day . I would never eat in one of these shacks and neither would anyone else if they witnessed this - Columbus Avenue is particularly lively for late night rat action.
These rat shacks in this video have been hit by cars, and tables knocked over at least 4 times. No one was sitting at the time, fortunately. People have been hit by bikes.
Now 4 of the 6 rat shacks have been taken down on that block. You should have seen what was under the floor boards! Not to mention the chatter noise when there WAS anyone sitting there. Not a good selling point for residential real estate on these block.
It’s about time!!!
Most of these should go, but the ones that are built properly (rat-proof) should be allowed to stay.
The chaos that these sheds have brought to small neighborhoods needs to be acknowledged. From taking full blocks of parking space, narrowing small streets that made driving unsafe for both cars and pedestrians, the rats and roaches they were brewing, the eye sores in a neighborhood, etc. It had to end. If they really cared about revitalizing restaurants they should lower the cost of permits or give out waivers to restaurants who are struggling. But we know the City only want to make money one way.
I remember going to Manhattan a few years ago, I couldn’t believe the sheer number of dining sheds in the sidewalks and streets. It was ridiculous.
What's so ridiculous? The outdoor dining sheds were a cool feature.
@@theonlycaulfield They were cool, but tbh it causes a lot of congestion and mayhem w/ traffic. Before the sheds, the streets were able to be navigated easier and much more.
Imaging Tens of thousands of parking spaces taken away? This city is 10 years behind most modern cities.
@@0vercast7 bingo
@@0vercast7 Who cares about traffic? Most people walk in NYC.
Next-- unused bike lanes !
I have never eaten in a shed.
Good! Give us parking spaces back. Ur gonna charge people to come below 60th Street just to find there is no where to park
What about congestion pricing?
I take the city will put up NO PARKING signs as soon as the sheds come down😂
It’s WAY TOO HARD to operate a business in NYC!! Forget it!!! …….I’d move to Katonah!!
I've seen numerous occasions where rats go in and out of the floors of the sheds.
I'll never dine in the sheds where the rats are beneath the floor.
Miceshellter NYC staff are dangerous 😢
30% restaurants going under
It is hell living above these outdoor restaurants. The extra noise is non-stop from May to October, 7 days a week - to the point where I can no longer open any window in my apartment. And the rats!! FYI:
They are inside those sheds every night after hours all over the pre-set tables. The extra delivery trucks at 3am, 4am...Sysco trucks idling literally for hours outside my windows, sometimes one across the street from another.. The sheds did their job, but enough is enough. Restaurants have done very very well through it all - their nightly garbage output on the street is quadruple of what it was pre-Covid. Good for them, but the quality of life here has never been this bad. We desperately need to clean house & elect new city officials on all levels.
If a restaurant has more waste (particularly a restaurant) it means that it has a lot more waste and therefore isn't doing that well at all. I agree though, its time for the bad actors to go.
YESSSSSSS!!!!! Waaaaay OVERDUE!!!!
Without these being covered, who’s gonna eat in these from November through March. You can’t heat an uncovered area.
Elrgant dining while rats ran beneath your feet.
They don't eat much
I personally love outdoor dining and do not mind common sense regulation around this, however, I also want to point out that the alternative to their being extra square footage for a business that provides a job, eyes on the street, and a pleasant experience is that that space will be used as free parking for the one and five people in Manhattan, who own cars, or are otherwise coming to Manhattan in a car. At minimum, I hope that the parking costs something overnight, and that any parking that could otherwise be outdoor dining is parking metered for fairness.
What's "Common sense regulations" to you exactly? The government wants these people to destroy their existing sheds, pay $15K in licensing fees, and rebuild these same EXACT sheds right back up. How is that common sense? That's just extortion.
so the city will be better off with one parking space for a beat up kia instead of the cool vibes given off by outdoor dining especially in summer. okay. seems like an overall negative for the city.
almost nobody has used these sheds for food in years.
I think they add beautification and character though honestly.
I dunno, it was nice having extra pee-corners around town.
Great! Now there's going to be more cars on the street 🙄
YOU CANNOT EAT OUTSIDE! Says the karens of mew york city. So long paris of the north. Pathetic. New york is pathetic.
Go move to Paris then
this was good in 2020. But this garbage needs to go
It's a shame that they won't allow them to be enclosed anymore because at least with the inclement weather coming and the intermittent days of good weather in between people might still actually want to sit outside and if you have outside dining that's all open to the elements they won't be able to anymore.
Good! These shacks are disgusting.
sheds were ridiculus. durin the pandemic, jewish resturants would just turn the entire outside of the resturant into sheds and just serve people in an enclosed "shed" to go around the restrictions. good riddance
good i can finally park my damn car
That’s nuts. You have to tear your dining shed down that is free. You then can build one for $15,000. I smell a rat.
Correct. This is just extortion
Why dine outside and get robbed?
I use those sheds as my own personal bathroom😮
Those are lovely in the winter though.
NYC should have not ben so dumb in making of all this nonsense in the first place. NYC is cooked
FINALLY!!!!!!!
Finally!
They need to lower the dam fees.
No free square footage for your restaurant, boo-hoo!
But how does it benefit anyone to charge these people $15K to use something they've already been using anyway. Who does that $15K benefit exactly? You think the government is gonna spend that money wisely? You're an idiot. This is no different than congestion pricing.
The future for outdoors dining, is indoors dining
Finally! Bring back parking spots
NYC makes everything so hard $$
Finally, getting rid of free expansion of the restaurants.
They cause more traffic and take up street parking too
Yes we need our parking spots!
Of course the City "Wants in!" Smh...😂
restaurants just want to have more customers, well they need to rent out bigger spaces cause how tf you want the side walk and the street ontop of the indoor space
Get out of pet murdering NY!!
Instead of getting rid of them they’re charging more and building new ones 🤭
Thank you.
It served its purpose.
Fees fees fees.... NYC need to get their cut
It’s never about community safety it’s about government making more money from taxpayers.
It’s cheaper then rent for square footage
I can’t wait to leave this hungry city
Nyc gov't gone super greedy with high fee to keep out doo dining.
They should be ashamed.