The Department of City Planning is starting a design engagement process for a text amendment to establish a system for registering Open Restaurants on Tuesday, and by Wednesday morning Lower Manhattan officials were laying out their opposition.
Elected officials led by Assemblywoman Deborah Glick and leaders of community boards want stricter limitations on Open Restaurants which speakers claim make neighborhoods less livable in the abating pandemic, especially as sections of Lower Manhattan have seen the highest number of applications for the program.
