“No one any longer wanted to sit in the enclosure in colder weather. Robert Miller Now, the place has been shortened.ĭowntown, Stephen Starr’s giant Buddakan has already pulled its handsome outdoor seating setup. (Now if only next-door Rag Trade would take the hint.) Finnegan’s Wake on the Upper East Side used to have a more expansive outdoor dining structure. “It was time to strip off the Band-Aid,” said a manager. Legendary steakhouse Keen’s on West 36th Street yanked its street cabin - which was decorated with cheap hints of the atmospheric, century-old dining rooms - in November. In addition, he was fed up with vagrants and drug addicts sneaking in overnight.īasta Pasta on West 17th Street leveled its shed a few months ago when, “Nobody wanted it and it created too many problems,” an employee said. “Good riddance,” owner Dino Arpaia said to Cellini’s outdoor dining structure in Midtown.Ī car that rammed into the shed in front of Cellini on East 54th Street was also the last straw for owner Dino Arpaia, who took the remains down this week.
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More recently, uptown Lexington Avenue favorite BLT Prime removed its half-block-long shed after a driver smashed his car into it, leaving it too damaged to keep up. “We were not able to please our guests with outdoor conditions such as loud noise, and the scenery was not the prettiest,” said partner Joji Uematsu. The rage to raze them started early last year at popular Japanese udon noodle mecca Tsuru TonTan, which has locations on East 16th and West 48th streets. It’s a perfect storm destroying the sheds.” The corner of Greenwich and North Moore streets in Tribeca is cleaner without Locanda Verde’s old shed.Īndrew Rigie, president of the New York City Hospitality Alliance, attributed owners’ declining zeal to being “very frustrated” over not knowing when the city would announce guidelines for the sheds, which were launched as emergency measures during the indoor-dining bans of 20.
“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. 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. David Paterson says there is ‘rampant fear of crime’ in NYC
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