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CB2 SLA committee reviews several restaurant license alterations; small stipulations and documentation requested
Summary
Manhattan Community Board 2’s SLA committee reviewed multiple restaurant license alterations and asked applicants to provide corrected seating diagrams and sign standard neighborhood stipulations limiting private parties and preserving ADA access.
Manhattan Community Board 2’s SLA committee heard a batch of restaurant licensing applications and asked applicants to supply clarifying diagrams, agree to standard neighborhood stipulations and confirm hours and private‑party limits.
Why it matters: The committee reviewed multiple on‑premise applications that, taken together, shape neighborhood restaurant operations and hours. Several applicants agreed to small stipulations the committee uses to protect pedestrian access and limit late‑night disturbance.
Selected applications and committee requests or applicant responses: - Kennedy Organics LLC doing business as Charlie Bird (5 King Street): Ben Savitsky, attorney for the applicant, said the requested alteration is a change in method of operation to open earlier on weekdays (moving opening times earlier by roughly an hour). The applicant stated “Everything else is remaining exactly the same.” The committee provided updated stipulation forms to the applicant to sign. - Shosh (41 Greenwich Avenue): The owner described Shosh as a plant‑based restaurant that opened last September and is applying to upgrade from beer and wine to a full liquor license. The owner said operations are reservation‑only, hours are roughly 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. daily (midnight permitted on Friday and Saturday), no outdoor seating, background music only, and private parties limited to about 10–12 per year; the committee requested the applicant submit an updated stipulation reflecting no more than 12 private parties per year. - Kosaka (220 West 13th Street): Benjamin Korngutt, attorney for the applicant, said the Omakase‑only restaurant operates with 18 seats inside and would like to change from beer and wine to liquor; the applicant said the new proposed closing time is 11 p.m. The committee had no outstanding objections but asked for a corrected seating diagram showing interior seats. - WS F and B LLC (restaurant space at the Washington Square Hotel): Phil Dorn, attorney for the applicants, said the restaurant and the hotel have separate liquor licenses; the restaurant space would remain fundamentally the same with no outdoor seating, a midnight closing time, and no live music. The applicants agreed to a private‑party cap of 24 for whole‑space buyouts in committee discussion. - Dean’s (213 Sixth Avenue): Neil Visaki, representing the applicants, described a small British cuisine restaurant with about 20–24 seats, no outdoor seating planned now, and a 12 a.m. closing time. The committee asked that any operable windows be closed at 10 p.m.; the applicants agreed. - On the Corner / Mary Lane (99 Bank Street): The applicant requested a roadbed seating alteration (11 tables, 22 seats). Committee members asked the applicant to remove one table to ensure ADA access and noted other stipulations (no host stands, no sandwich boards) that would be included in the stipulation form.
Other procedural items: The committee waived appearances on a number of applications and asked applicants to submit updated diagrams where the architectural renderings omitted interior seating. Staff said stipulation forms would be sent by email after the meeting and that applicants must notarize and return them.
What the committee will follow up on: Updated seating diagrams (to confirm interior seats when outdoor seating is proposed), explicit stipulations limiting private parties where agreed, and any ADA/access fixes such as removing one table to preserve an accessible path. No formal roll‑call votes are recorded in the publicly available excerpt; business‑session items and final recommendations were to be handled after the public testimony portion.
Provenance: The committee introduced Charlie Bird and several other applicants early in the meeting (transcript excerpt: “So the application I'm going to call is Kennedy Organics doing business as Charlie Bird at 5 King Street”) and the set of applications and stipulations were discussed across a series of applicant presentations that follow in the transcript.
