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Community Board 2 hears dozens of restaurant liquor and outdoor-dining requests; noise and hours top concerns
Summary
At a packed Community Board 2 licensing meeting, restaurant applicants sought transfers, method-of-operation changes and outdoor-dining approvals. Committee members and neighbors pressed applicants on noise, venting, sidewalk clearances and late-night hours; many applicants agreed to 10 p.m. outdoor closing or other stipulations.
Community Board 2 members reviewed more than a dozen liquor-license transfers and changes of operation and discussed multiple sidewalk- and roadway-dining proposals, all centered on restaurants in and around the West Village and Greenwich Village.
The board’s licensing committee prioritized three recurring issues: expanded outdoor seating under the city’s…
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