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16 MARCH 15, 2024

Mayor Adams opens dining out NYC portal for

restaurants to apply to participate in New York

City’s Outdoor Dining Program

Portal Includes Clear Guidance and Free Downloadable Blueprints

for Sidewalk and Roadway Setup Options

OUR BUREAU
NEW YORK, NY
ew York City Mayor Eric Adams today
opened applications for restaurants to apply
Nfor and participate in Dining Out NYC —
the city’s permanent outdoor dining program. The
online application portal will serve as an easy access
point for restaurants to apply to participate in the
program, understand the guidelines that the pro-
gram establishes, and download sample blueprints
from the Dining Out NYC Set-Up Menu for how
an outdoor setup will need to look.
Dining Out NYC represents one of the most
significant efforts of the last decade to reimagine the
city’s streetscape by creating vibrant public spaces that
improve quality of life for New Yorkers while simulta-
neously continuing to accelerate the city’s economic
recovery by supporting workers and small restaurant
owners. The new program draws on lessons learned
from the temporary outdoor dining program creat-
ed during the COVID-19 pandemic, which saved on city streets by the summer of 2024,” said New for the nation’s largest permanent outdoor dining
100,000 jobs across the city but led to quality-of-life York City Department of Transportation (DOT) program a piece of cake. We are here to help you
issues as a subset of restaurant owners were unable Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez. “I am looking build a safe, clean, and beautiful set up for your
to maintain loosely-regulated outdoor dining setups. forward to seeing businesses across our city apply for restaurant as we deliver an al fresco landscape to
“We’re getting outdoor dining right, getting the program and adhering to the new rules and reg- rival any European city.”
sheds down, getting trash off our streets, and fun- ulations. This will enhance access to outdoor dining “Dining Out NYC not only revitalizes New York
damentally changing what it feels like to be outside that is safe, clean, and rat-free in all five boroughs.” City’s streetscape but also fosters economic growth
in New York City,” said Mayor Adams. “The portal “The old dining program had NO requirement while supporting restaurants and their workers,”
we’re opening today will make it easy for restau- to clean around the structures, which made the ar- said “New” New York Executive Director B.J.
rants to participate in Dining Out NYC, build set- eas around them DIS-GUS-TING,” said New York Jones. “The Adams administration is facilitating
ups that work for diners, owners, neighbors, and our City Department of Sanitation Commissioner Jessi- this exciting program with a user-friendly online
city, and continue to hire workers and serve satis- ca Tisch. “The fact that these rules correct that ab- portal and helpful guidance to make the largest out-
fied customers. We’ve locked in the best parts of the surdity is a win for all New Yorkers in and of itself.” door dining program in the country a reality.”

pandemic program and done away with the worst, “Ensuring that our city streets remain clean is “Bringing the city’s regulations to life in four dif-
and I can’t wait to dine out this summer!” critical to diners’ enjoyment of new outdoor spaces ferent urban situations, our modular, off-the-shelf
“New Yorkers vote with their feet — outdoor in every community,” said Mayor’s Office of Food systems are real options that work for New York’s
dining has been a runaway success,” said Deputy Policy Executive Director Kate MacKenzie. “The restaurant owners,” said Jacob Dugopolski, associ-
Mayor for Operations Meera Joshi. “Now, it’s time new Dining Out NYC Portal represents an exciting ate principal, WXY. “From angled corners to a va-
to formalize the program and do away with the step forward in our ability to serve the business- riety of overhead coverings, they take into account
negatives. The nation’s largest permanent outdoor es we rely on to provide expanded choice to New the situation on the ground in New York and give
dining program will have all the fun but with more Yorkers so they may access the healthy, culturally restaurant owners the tools they need to succeed.”
consistency, cleanliness, and clear sight lines for all relevant food they want wherever they may want it.” “Our ambition as architects of public space is to
who use our streets.” “Sign up, sign up, wherever you are,” said Chief design the tools and strategies that allow citizens to
“The launch of the Dining Out NYC Portal and Public Realm Officer Ya-Ting Liu. “New Yorkers shape their own neighborhoods,” said Basar Girit,
Set-Up Menu marks a significant milestone, bring- love outdoor dining. With our new Set-Up Menu, partner, SITU. “We hope these schemes and guide-
ing us one step closer to full implementation of the clear rules, and a landing page for restaurants, lines provide the flexibility for restaurants to contin-
nation’s largest permanent outdoor dining program we’ve done everything we can to make signing up ue to activate and enliven their streetscapes.”

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