Here Are NYC Outdoor Dining Mock-Ups Shown to City Council - Eater NY

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As City Council announces new proposed legislation for outdoor dining in NYC — and Mayor Bill de Blasio continues to hang back on the topic — one of the city’s highest-profile restaurant architecture firms has been working to show what outdoor dining could look like in all five NYC boroughs. The mock-ups were referenced in City Council’s press conference on Thursday introducing a new outdoor dining bill for the city.

The firm, Rockwell Group, is known for designing some of NYC’s buzziest restaurant destinations, such as Union Square Cafe’s revamp and Nolita Indonesian hotspot Wayan. The company teamed up with industry trade group the NYC Hospitality Alliance on a pro bono basis to start sketching out how restaurants could set up safely outdoors if the city allows.

Rockwell’s work with the Alliance was first reported on by Bloomberg earlier this month.

The architecture firm took five restaurants located in each borough and sketched out adaptable models to show how they could use existing street space to facilitate socially distant dining. Some are shown setting up on the sidewalk, using street parking spaces, or setting up a platform in the middle of the street, if the restaurant is located on a street that was shut down as part of the mayor’s Open Streets initiative.

Other cities including San Francisco and Philadelphia have already announced plans allowing for restaurants and bars to operate safely outdoors on the streets.

In lieu of any formal plan or set of guidelines put forth by the mayor on how to facilitate safe outdoor dining, restaurants are struggling to handle customers that want to hang out in the warm weather. New Yorkers have been increasingly forming de facto outdoor bars and restaurants in streets around their favorite spots, leading to the city announcing stricter enforcement of takeout and delivery rules.

“Rockwell Group’s hope is to create a template that is adaptable for different locations and sidewalk and street environments, and that it will be cost effective for the city and restaurant owners, and also provide potential revenue to offset costs,” a spokesperson for the company says.

The company is “currently in discussion with funders for a pilot program” on outdoor dining, according to the spokesperson.

All sketches provided courtesy of the Rockwell Group

Rockwell Group

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