Assemblymember Tony Simone advocates for year-round outdoor dining in New York City, emphasizing its importance during the pandemic. He argues that new regulations limiting outdoor setups are counterproductive, stifling business opportunities instead of facilitating them. Simone believes with proper management, including city sanitation efforts, outdoor dining can thrive while maintaining urban aesthetics. His proposed legislation aims to simplify regulations to support small businesses, arguing for a vibrant streetscape as part of city life, rather than a restrictive approach that complicates outdoor dining.
We're a really amazing city. We have a lot of smart, hard-working people in sanitation, and in the bids, there's a way of keeping them clean and having outdoor dining all year, Assemblymember Simone argued on March 31.
One of the most beautiful things about COVID is the streetscape was alive. Unfortunately, the city put restrictive rules that make outside street dining too expensive, too many bureaucratic obstacles in the place.
Simone believes that the city and state can forge a way forward to keep outdoor dining all year long without reliving some of the quality of life problems that led to the new regulations.
Simone stood with supporters outside of the Empire Diner on 22nd Street and 10th Avenue in Chelsea and charged that New York's new outdoor dining rules were backfiring and restricting business opportunity rather that creating it.
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