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City Hall Expands Menu of Outdoor Dining Options
The de Blasio administration is adding 21 more locations for outdoor dining options as part of a city initiative that combines the Open Streets and Open Restaurants programs, while adding more seating in more outer-borough pedestrian plazas. These include seven downtown locations in the Flatiron District, NoMad, Chinatown and the Financial District.
The administration is also adding four more locations in three boroughs for Play Streets, an initiative the city launched in July to provide safe, structured children’s activities during summer weekdays.
Deputy Mayor Laura Anglin said, “By continuing to give restaurants innovative ways to serve their customers, we are not only helping to save these jobs and businesses but also providing New Yorkers a small sense of normalcy.”
Last month, de Blasio said the city would extend in-street dining through October instead of ending it by Labor Day, giving more than 9,500 participating restaurants two extra months to participate.
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