BY ERIC ADAMS | Summer weather is here, and there is no better time to be on the streets of New York — especially at…
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Kill Bill (31-B), dining shed foes cry as Council poised to make pandemic gutter structures permanent
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Get outdoor dining out of the gutter already! That’s what members of CUEUP (Coalition United for Equitable Urban Policy), who…
BY CAROLINE BENVENISTE | More casual Asian restaurants arrived this month, and more coffee shops appeared. Bleecker Street continues to be filled with women-owned businesses…
Shed foes call for end to roadway use, urge ‘equitable’ plan in ‘Community Blueprint for Outdoor Dining’
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | As the City Council works obscurely behind closed doors on a plan to make outdoor dining permanent, community residents have…
BY CAROLINE BENVENISTE | This past month there were a number of Asian restaurant openings and anticipated openings (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai), but Korean corn…
One of the top stories in The Village Sun has been the ongoing debate over the city’s outdoor dining program, Open Restaurants. It’s clearly a…
Comings & Goings
BY CAROLINE BENVENISTE | A new newspaper, a new column. Like we did before, we’ll try to report on all the retail and restaurant activity…
Maggie Berkvist, 94, photographer, former Times photo editor
BY CAROLINE BENVENISTE | Maggie Berkvist (née Bellward) died at Bellevue Hospital on Dec. 9, after surgery to repair a broken hip. She was 94.…
Takin’ it to the streeteries: Shed foes to demand Council hold hearings, do enviro study on permanent Open Restaurants bill
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Shed foes intend to give the City Council “a taste of their own medicine” — complete with a mock-up of…
Source: Permanent Open Restaurants bill due by end of next month; One-year or longer phase-out eyed for contentious ‘streetery’ sheds
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated, Oct. 14, 7:20 p.m.: The shed could be hitting the fan again — soon. The Village Sun has learned that…