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Council Member Brewer Questions DOT on Street Cleaning and Paving Coordination

New York City Council · Apr 23, 2025 · starts 2:08:33 · 1 min 19 sec

Council Member Gale Brewer asks DOT how the agency coordinates street cleaning and road paving around active roadway dining setups.

Gale A. Brewer

They had no idea.

Gale A. Brewer

I mean, you and I might know because of the insignia in the window, but believe me, they didn't know.

Gale A. Brewer

Right.

Gale A. Brewer

Can we be a second round?

Gale A. Brewer

I have more questions.

Gale A. Brewer

I don't want to take other time.

Julie Menin

Go ahead, go ahead.

Gale A. Brewer

Um the other question I have is just in terms of the you heard earlier about the street cleaning.

Gale A. Brewer

Um obviously that was a concern before.

Gale A. Brewer

So what how would you know road paving or other issues?

Gale A. Brewer

How are we gonna make sure that there is cleanliness?

Gale A. Brewer

Obviously, the ones who are here earlier in terms of the restaurants, they keep it clean.

Gale A. Brewer

But how are you working with sanitation on that issue?

Gale A. Brewer

We understand there won't be the underneath for the rats.

Gale A. Brewer

I got that, but you know, it's other things.

Gale A. Brewer

How how how are we gonna work on that?

Margaret Forgioni

Okay, the restaurant is required to clean all the way around their setup.

Gale A. Brewer

Okay, who's gonna monitor that though, Margaret?

Margaret Forgioni

So sanitation is still monitoring that, and if they see an issue, they can violate issue of violation to the restaurant, or they can tell us and we can get involved as well.

Margaret Forgioni

And then as you mentioned, the floors are removable for easy cleaning.

Margaret Forgioni

You mentioned paving.

Margaret Forgioni

That's why the setups needed also to be removable with water filled barriers.

Margaret Forgioni

They're much easier to empty and move if we're coming through to pave.

Margaret Forgioni

We don't want a situation where we're paving around to setup.

Margaret Forgioni

We want to pave the street from curb to curb.

Gale A. Brewer

Okay, and the other thing was the restaurant that talked about the fees.

Gale A. Brewer

Um I know you said that you need to have that discussion about the uh architectural drawings that need to be more complicated than what what do you think the fee should be?