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Add this corrupt “City Of Yes” Citywide policymaking to the reams of Zoning Text Amendments shoved down the public’s throat by organized investment groups, gold rushing on the Adam’s administration’s useful idiocy. Dining Out NY ZTA gave our public space to restaurant & bar owners, who just offset their corp taxes with added profits that benefits not a single NY’r, including their own workers who just have to work harder. More jobs? Such bs. Now add Adam’s “City Of Yes” ZTA next on the block, listen over and over to how good unrestrained overdevelopment & upzoning will be for “all NY’rs”, all in the name of “affordable housing” for people who need it but will never get. More jobs? Such bs. City Councilmembers, stop saying nothing, you’re politicians & supposed to open your big mouths. Stop biding your time for a better day that always comes too late. Say NO to City Of Yes…NOW ALREADY!
Dapolito Center should NOT be demolished. Should be fully restored, brought into full operation, annually celebrated and well funded for the inspiring fitness/mental health community generational resource it’s been for residents & could be for generations to come. @errollouis @CueUpNewYork
Dapolito Center should NOT be demolished. Should be fully restored, brought into full operation, annually celebrated and well funded for the inspiring fitness/mental health community generational resource it’s been for residents & could be for generations to come. @errollouis @CueUpNewYork
CentralVillageBA retweeted
We already have permanent, year-round outdoor dining on sidewalks throughout the city. So what are you talking about? Seems like the only thing that will make you happy is clogging up more curb lanes! Go away.
CentralVillageBA retweeted
A beautifully written article that sums up the future of public space taken over for profit.
This says it all . . .
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Despite media handwringing and boohooing, outdoor dining is set to continue at TRIPLE pre-pandemic levels, with lower fees, and streamlined applications.
thevillagesun.com/opinion-de…
Please don’t desecrate Joni’s lovingly activist lyrics & creativity with your crass faux-activist mask for Gorton’s investment empire.
It could be a paved paradise, not a parking lot. nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/08/…
Totally agree!!!
A Chinatown without dining sheds is a more beautiful Chinatown. #shedthesheds @CueUpNewYork @NYCMayor
CentralVillageBA retweeted
Here's a picture of you celebrating your "poison pill" bill with the bill's sponsor CM Velazquez. Remember? Back in August 3, 2023? Sorry, the pic is not too flattering.
ALT Open Plans lobbyist Sara Lind and then-Councilmember Margorie Velazquez raised a glass to the passage of Intro 31C at Five & Dime Bar near City Hall. August 3, 2023.
CentralVillageBA retweeted
"You would think that NYC D.O.T. would put your medical emergency over a restaurant’s desire to sell a $29 plate of gnocchi with a $25 glass of Barolo on a charmingly narrow little street"
BUT YOU'D BE WRONG:
thevillagesun.com/opinion-d-…
CentralVillageBA retweeted
“Before the temporary emergency outdoor dining program, it never occurred to me to worry about whether a fire truck, an ambulance or a police car could get to my front door. Nor did it occur to me that D.O.T. would ask the F.D.N.Y. to narrow a travel lane that their own vehicles need — just so that a restaurant can serve ceviche along with a glass of Grenache to a handful of customers in a roadway shed.” @CueUpNewYork
thevillagesun.com/opinion-d-…
CentralVillageBA retweeted
Why should residents respect the DOT & FDNY’s Dining Out NYC rules on minimum safety clearances if they just hand waivers out the back door? Is a 15’ minimum emergency traffic lane & our safety now negotiable just because a restaurant owner wants to take over more outdoor space?
2mil grant for 60 restaurants tax payer $’s to replace crappy outdoor sheds….with more sheds. So $33k per shed but $0 for your local library…Thank you Dining Out NY @AndrewRigie @theNYCalliance @CueUpNewYork @NYCMayorsOffice @GraceMengOnline
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Tim Mellon & other billionaires attained obscene wealth from the spending public, should be held accountable by the public for financing/electing corrupt candidates as useful idiots to expedite/protect their personal fortunes, all in the name of freedom. nytimes.com/2024/06/20/us/po…
CentralVillageBA retweeted
So many RESIDENTS (not tourists who come & then go) are made MISERABLE by restaurant sheds in front of their apts/homes
Are you one of them? Rats-Noise-Blight?
Don't just twitter-gripe!
BITCH TO NYC "RULES" aka DOT/NYC GOVT HEARING MON
WRITE/COMPLAIN NOW!
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
CentralVillageBA retweeted
The Cluny, The Westly, Nat’s, St Tropez are destroying West 4th Street and there has been no action by our representatives to help us. NYC is hopelessly corrupt.
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Read more here: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Worried about permanent pandemic outdoor dining destroying your neighborhood? Show up & speak up at the Rules hearing: Monday, 11/20, 10am. Tell NYC-DOT you want protections for residential neighborhoods.
📣 Sign up to speak: votervoice.net/CUEUP/Campaig…
Sara Lind & @openplans attacks NYC’s Community Boards, the only voice of reason left in NYC’s neighborhoods? From their halls of privilege they’ve judged restaurant investment group profits to be worth more than preserving the community voice of everyday people. @errollouis
A lot more worried about “slow death” of everyday people’s community voice & public space than @openplans @StreetsblogNYC shameless shills for Mark Gortons Uber/Lyft investments & @AndrewRigie restaurant profits. @CueUpNewYork @TheVillageSun @errollouis @BrianLehrer @ebottcher
CentralVillageBA retweeted
Did you know that .@NYC_DOT is asking for public comments on the rules for the permanent pandemic outdoor dining program (aka the rat streateries and incubation centers) they plan to continue permanently?
ALT An illustration of a filthy, trash-ridden, rat-infested "alfresco" dining shed is pictured in the middle of a New York City roadway with yellow cabs whizzing by on either side. The ramshackle dining setup, strewn with trash and debris, is much like those we see everyday on the streets of our ever more dysregulated city.
A lot more worried about “slow death” of everyday people’s community voice & public space than @openplans @StreetsblogNYC shameless shills for Mark Gortons Uber/Lyft investments & @AndrewRigie restaurant profits. @CueUpNewYork @TheVillageSun @errollouis @BrianLehrer @ebottcher
Worried about outdoor dining dying a slow death? Log on Monday 11/20 at 10am to the rules hearing & tell DOT you want a YEAR-ROUND program.
You can use our toolkit to do it (or to submit written testimony before Monday): docs.google.com/document/d/1…
