Thursday, November 18, 2010
News Screw Your Dumb Parking Complaints, Bring on the Brooklyn Pop-Up Cafes!
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:06 PM
So I sure hope that grumpy car jerks won't end up scuppering the city's plan to push its Pop-Up Cafe pilot program onto the streets of Brooklyn next summer. Beginning last year in Lower Manhattan, with two restaurants on Pearl Street, the pop-up cafes are basically wooden platforms installed level with the curb, creating a table-friendly extra-wide sidewalk buffered from the street by wooden planters. You know, just like Europe. In anticipation of space/parking complaints (booo!), individual community boards will have to approve any given pop-ups planned for their neighborhoods.
(And insofar as there's very little I enjoy more than sitting outside on a beautiful day with a beer, watching attractive Brooklynites walk down the street, may I submit to CB1 my wholehearted endorsement of non-stop pop-ups on Bedford Avenue. I will gladly sacrifice my ease of parking for an afternoon al fresco.)
*My wife and I have a car in Brooklyn, and we park it on the street, and we have to move it every few days—that's life if you want to have a car in the city.
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