'Outdoor Dining Is Home Invasion': Scenes From Manhattan CB3

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( thursday, July 15 C.B. MINUTES [‘Outdoor Dining Is Home Invasion’: Scenes From Manhattan CB3]( The city wants to make streeteries permanent, and the East Village is not having it. Photo: Valeria Ricciulli A crowd of at least a dozen people waited near the corner of 10th Street and Avenue A on Tuesday night. The hottest club in town, or at least in the East Village, was actually the Manhattan Community Board 3 meeting — one of its first in-person meetings since the start of the pandemic. On the agenda: making outdoor dining permanent, meaning the streeteries that had proliferated during the pandemic would become a lasting feature in the city. On this night (and in upcoming community-board meetings around the city), the city is gathering feedback on a change to the zoning code that would allow sidewalk cafés and streeteries to expand beyond commercial and manufacturing districts to set up on residential blocks, as they have during the pandemic. While the Open Restaurants program has been a boon for the restaurant industry and for street life, there’s growing opposition to keeping streeteries around for good — and the antis were out in force, waving black-and-yellow signs that read “Outdoor Dining Is Home Invasion” and “Outdoor Dining Feeds the Rats.” [Continue reading »]( Never miss a story from Curbed: [Subscribe now.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Are We Ever Going to Get a Place to Sit Down in Moynihan Station? After a viral tweet about the lack of benches, the corporation behind the Penn Station expansion says the seats are coming.]( By Diana Budds [15 Especially Well-Designed Bedside Lamps We asked designer Ming Thompson to share her favorites across all price points.]( By Ming Thompson [The Astor Place Kmart Was My Place to Be Normal I bought most of my clothes there and ate cheap pizza in the café.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( It happened this week — let’s talk about it. [Sign up for My Week in New York](: a new newsletter from the editors. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( If you enjoyed reading Curbed’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or [subscribe to our Design Hunting newsletter]( for a visual diary from design editor Wendy Goodman and the [Listings Edit newsletter](, a digest of particularly worth-it apartments for rent in New York City. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=curbed) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2021, All rights reserved