The plan, which he calls Dining Out NYC 2.0, redesigns the current program to be year-round and streamlines the sidewalk and roadside outdoor dining approvals to make the application process ...

Outdoor dining is back in New York City, so find a table and some fresh air. The roadway cafes that popped up across the city during the COVID pandemic had to be taken down last year, but they've ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York City's outdoor dining program starts on Tuesday. So far, the Transportation Department has signed off on permits for 617 roadway set-ups and more than 1,800 ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Restaurants across New York City can finally begin serving meals to patrons in their sidewalk and roadway eating spaces on Tuesday. They were once a staple of the pandemic, but ...

There’s a truism that outdoor dining was the one most visible silver lining of COVID’s disastrous impact on the city, and that seems plainly so.

The city’s Department of Transportation says it has received more than 3,400 Dining Out NYC applications from more than 3,000 restaurants, and has worked to make the program as accessible to ...

A program to restart outdoor dining in New York City on April 1 is facing an extensive backlog of applications. By Matthew Haag During the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, desperate New York ...

It's unclear how much revenue the city is expected to bring in each year from the program, but at the height of the pandemic, outdoor dining resulted in $373 million of total annual wages, and ...

New York City’s hospitality industry toasted an announcement Wednesday by the state Liquor Authority clarifying that hundreds more establishments would be allowed to serve alcohol in outdoor dining.