CB2 asks city agencies to address repeat "pop-up" events; Parks committee reviews Petrosino Square art plan

Manhattan Community Board 2's Street Activities & Resiliency committee reported sending a letter — drafted with input from Councilmember Chris Marte's office — to city agencies asking for coordination on recurring, social-media-driven pop-up events in Nolita and SoHo.

The committee chair said the letter names specific locations and requests that the Department of Transportation, event-platform operators (referred to in the transcript as "CCM") and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection work together to identify mitigations for repeat offenders that generate large lines and street impacts. "We consulted with them, and they wrote a letter to, it's it's to the DOT, and and CCM, which is the parent company of Safo, and DCWP, just raising the issue to them and actually naming some of the specific spaces which we've seen as being repeat offenders," a committee speaker said.

Separately, the Parks and Waterfront committee reported an upcoming art-installation review at Lieutenant Petrosino Square; the neighborhood group Petrosino Friends supports the work and the installation is scheduled to remain for approximately three months. The Parks report also noted renewed attention to a $500,000 DOT commitment to study and design an expanded Petrosino Square; the committee asked the board to follow up with DOT on the status of that funded study.

Committee members said these actions are intended to reduce neighborhood disruptions from ephemeral marketing-driven events and to advance long-term public-space improvements. The board did not take a formal regulatory action at the executive meeting; the committees will follow up with the agencies named in the letter and with DOT on Petrosino Square design funding.