![]() “To properly serve these spaces, additional staff - which is expensive and not easy to find - is often required. “Very few people are utilizing them now, no matter how elaborate,” said veteran restaurant consultant Shelley Clark. More modest spots, like the Upper East Side’s Blue Mezze, Canyon Road and Finnegans Wake - are chopping their sheds in half. Redesigned Noz Market uptown returns this week from a temporary shutdown minus the toolshed-like counter it once had on East 75th Street. “It was time to strip off the Band-Aid,” said a manager. Keen’s Steakhouse on 36th used to have a wooden shed that stretched down the block. New York City’s street-based dining structures are quietly disappearing - and restaurant critic Steve Cuozzo couldn’t be happier. This despite construction costs of up to $100,000. Sheds recently came down without fanfare at premier spots including Buddakan, Keen’s Steakhouse, Locanda Verde, BLT Prime, Tao Downtown, Tsuru TonTan and Cellini. And they’re festering grounds for vagrants and vermin, to boot. Once necessary, they’re now too costly to run and maintain for too few patrons. ![]() ![]() I mean the unheralded, entirely voluntary takedowns by owners who find that these structures are shunned and despised by customers ( not to mention neighbors). I’m not talking about the city’s overdue crackdown on dangerous or unused shanty-town shacks that’s claimed nearly 200 stinkers - including Pinky’s on East 1st Street, which had the chutzpah to sue the city over it. New York City’s street-based dining structures are quietly going the way of “show your vaccination card” at some of the hottest and most famous of eating establishments, a Post survey found. The sheds they are a-crumblin’ - and the sooner they all do, the better. NYC spent $9M sending $5 bills with surveys - and most people threw them out Robert De Niro leaves NYC home in first sighting since grandson Leandro’s deathĪdults should ‘never, ever’ put this on a hot dog - ‘Grow up,’ experts sayĬity Sanitation workers caught on video ignoring sidewalk trash in NYC
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