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Community board presses Olio to shrink sidewalk cafe and remove roadway seating after compliance disputes
Summary
At a Manhattan City liquor-licensing committee meeting, attorney Donald Bernstein and residents clashed over Oolios unpermitted sidewalk and roadway seating. The operator proposed eliminating roadway seats and cutting outdoor seating from 77 to 48 as the committee sought guarantees and monitoring before any SLA reconsideration.
Donald Bernstein, attorney for Oolio, told the Manhattan City Community Boards Liquor Licensing Committee that the restaurant group is seeking to resolve a months-long dispute over sidewalk and roadway seating at the Greenwich Avenue flagship. The discussion, held in the committees business session, centered on prior unpermitted extensions of outdoor seating, planters and servers working outside the demarcated sidewalk cafe.
Bernstein said Oolio will remove road-bed seating entirely, reduce the total outdoor seat count from 77 to 48 and accept an 11 p.m. closing time for the sidewalk cafe. "We would propose that we get rid of the road bed seating entirely," Bernstein said. "We're going from a total of 77 seats to 48 seats." He also said the…
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