{"id":1512,"date":"2026-08-13T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2026-08-14T21:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:15:03","slug":"outdoor-dining-sheds-are-staying-year-round-says-nyc-council-in-a-delicious-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/2026\/08\/13\/outdoor-dining-sheds-are-staying-year-round-says-nyc-council-in-a-delicious-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor dining sheds are staying year-round, says NYC Council in a delicious vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Christina Izzo, Time Out New York<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ongoing saga of&nbsp;New York City&#8217;s outdoor dining&nbsp;sheds looks like it has blissfully come to an end: They&#8217;re here for good. The New York City Council today passed legislation allowing NYC restaurants to install &#8220;readily removable vertical winterization coverings&#8221; in licensed sidewalk caf\u00e9 areas from November 30 through March 31, extending&nbsp;al fresco season&nbsp;far beyond the usual&nbsp;warm-weather timeframe and allowing restaurant owners to forgo the annual costly hassle of tearing down their makeshift shacks and dining sheds.&nbsp;LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/news\/outdoor-dining-sheds-are-staying-year-round-says-the-nyc-council-in-a-delicious-vote-081326\">They&#8217;re here for good<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Christina Izzo, Time Out New York<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing saga of&nbsp;New York City&#8217;s outdoor dining&nbsp;sheds looks like it has blissfully come to an end: They&#8217;re here for good. The New York City Council today passed legislation allowing NYC restaurants to install &#8220;readily removable vertical winterization coverings&#8221; in licensed sidewalk caf\u00e9 areas from November 30 through March 31, extending&nbsp;al fresco season&nbsp;far beyond the usual&nbsp;warm-weather timeframe and allowing restaurant owners to forgo the annual costly hassle of tearing down their makeshift shacks and dining sheds.&nbsp;LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/news\/outdoor-dining-sheds-are-staying-year-round-says-the-nyc-council-in-a-delicious-vote-081326\">They&#8217;re here for good<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-legislation","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}