THE ISSUES: IN THE NEWS
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NYC’s ‘Open Streets’ revising rules to use public space for profit: ‘Fresh kind of hell’ew List Item
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Opinion: Despite media angst, outdoor dining still triple pre-pandemic level
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Deadline Approaches for Outdoor Dining Structures in NYC
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Public hearings — minus the public — on roadway cafe applications
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DOT puts dining sheds over our safety
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NYC Dining Shed Blows Into Street During High Winds and Locals Want Them Banned
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Should NYC Eliminate Outdoor Dining Sheds?
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Michael Sussman Interviewed by WBAI's Michael G. Haskins
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OPEN: CueUp Community Blueprint for Outdoor Dining
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Outdoor dining may be limited in Hoboken amid rat infestation
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Councilmember: Open Restaurants has no negative impacts
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Judge rules there's no emergency basis for outdoor dining, issues injunction
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Dining in the Gutter: Is it Here to Stay?
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Bars and Restaurants Chow Down on Mayo and Council
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At 188 Allen St., a curbside dining demolition like no other
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Last Call for Streeteries? Hells Kitchen's Outdoor Dining Sheds Face Legislative Uncertainty!
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Dining Sheds May Become Summer Staple. Is This Right . . . or a Blight?
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Patisserie Chanson Is Forced to Remove Its Outdoor Deck
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NYC cafes in, most sheds out as council, Adams strike deal for more outdoor dining
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Council Moves Final Outdoor Dining Bill as Seasonal Program
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Outdoor Dining Is Here to Stay. (Just Not in Winter)
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An Open Restaurants Plan, With New Strings
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With new bill, NYC Council 'weeks away' from passing permanent outdoor dining
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Outdoor Dining Is Here to Stay in New York - But Only Part Time
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The Permanent-Outdoor-Dining-Shed Bill Is Finally Here
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West Broadway Dining Sheds Make Way for Bike Path
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CB1 Votes to Scale Back Outdoor Dining Sheds
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Not Shedding a Tear: CB1 Wants Outdoor Dining Spaces Scaled Back
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Disgruntled NYC residents call for removal of outdoor dining structures
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NYC's Restaurant Sheds Await Their Fate as Council Mulls
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Neighborhood coalition releases blueprint for outdoor dining
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Waiting for the order: Future of NYC outdoor dining in limbo with legislation stuck, sheds dilapidated and tensions growing
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Shed foes call for end to roadway use, urge ‘equitable’ plan in ‘Community Blueprint for Outdoor Dining’
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The future of open air dining: Closing time is long past
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Do Dining Sheds Still Make Sense?
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Outdoor Dining Is Doomed
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What’s Wrong With Making the Pandemic Emergency Restaurant Program Permanent?
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New York City’s permanent outdoor dining plans remain uncertain
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Stop the Shed!: Business Recovery vs. Quality of Life in a "Post"-Pandemic NYC
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Residents on Open Restaurants (interview with Lynn Ellsworth)
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‘The Yuck Mobile’ Protesters demand more community input in the process of making outdoor dining permanent
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Plywood Gourmet: How thousands of restaurants speedily, messily, and probably permanently took over the street.
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Source: Permanent Open Restaurants bill due by end of next month; One-year or longer phase-out for contentious "streetery" sheds
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City back to work on permanent Open Restaurants plans following court ruling
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State court keeps possibility of permanent outdoor dining program alive for NYC
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Booze and Bike Lanes: Two years into outdoor dining, 100s of restaurants may be violating state law...
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The Final Days of New York's 'Wild West' Outdoor Dining Scene
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Lawsuit to End Outdoor Dining - Attorney Michael H. Sussman interview
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Opponents of Outdoor Dining Renew Fight Against Sheds
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The Battle Over Outdoor Dining in New York City Is Heading to Court ...
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Lawsuit challenges outdoor dining - states emergency that required them no longer exists
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Lawsuit calls for all dining sheds to go; Mayor supports more regulated sheds
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Lawsuit seeks to end New York City's outdoor dining program over excessive noise, garbage and rats
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NYC pandemic-era outdoor dining sheds destroying quality of life with rats, drugs, noise: suit
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Manhattan lawsuit aims to shut outdoor dining options in NYC
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Served! Judge rules against city on Open Restaurants; Says enviro impact review needed
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Zoning for permanent outdoor dining in NYC blocked by court
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NYC protesters rally in Greenwich Village against outdoor dining sheds
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In interview, fire union chief warns of dining sheds’ dangers, says they all need safety inspection
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NYC takes steps forward to make outdoor dining permanent fixture on city streets
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Dining Sheds Saved N.Y.C. Could They Destroy It?
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Manhattan, Brooklyn Residents Sue City to Stop Permanent Outdoor Dining
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Lower Manhattan pols hope to set boundaries with Open Restaurants program
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Several city lawmakers call for end of NYC outdoor dining structures
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Borough board rejects permanent Open Restaurant plan
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NYC restaurant stopped from building 'insane' 2-story outdoor dining shed
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Don’t give restaurants our streets (Op-Ed)
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Villagers dish out scorn for Open Restaurants at C.B.2 meeting
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C.B.2 braces for Open Restaurants public-review meeting as locals strategize
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Residents speak out against plan to make outdoor dining permanent
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The Debate Over the Future of Outdoor Dining Is Off to a Complicated Start
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Outdoor dining reopened restaurants for all - but added to barriers for disabled
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NYC outdoor dining structures face issues
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How a Labor-Bashing New York Lobbyist Snookered NY Pols (Opinion)