Sharon Brown Testimony: Resident Perspective

Okay, the sidewalk cafes and the various names that they have, uh, roadsides and on the sidewalks, they are very much needed.

Uh, we can extend the year-round option and make sure that it's places where it doesn't disturb traffic, and uh it's uh high volume area where uh it's disturbing people.

So we can find other places to set it up.

Uh, I have an idea that there should be a delivery option where maybe the government or the restaurant itself can have these uh spaces on beaches and different places like that, and they can deliver.

Someone can call their restaurant and be at the enclosure.

Uh the city can build some themselves, they can get military personnel, homeless veterans, whoever to build it, and they can have it in distant locations.

Someone can call and say, Can you deliver it to the sidewalk cafe on whatever place, and they can come there and deliver it there so that it won't just be in front of their restaurant clogging up so uh this lady here won't have a problem under, you know, and other people under their windows and different things like that.

We should have some kind of delivery option.

Uh it's very much needed, and the year-round option is uh necessary.

If you can have sidewalk cafes year-round, then the enclosure shouldn't be a problem.

Uh the delivery option should help cure why people don't want to have uh the year-round in the streets in the enclosures.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you to this panel.

We have one more person in panel before we go to Zoom, Madison Pinchne.

Hi, thank you for uh the opportunity to testify.

My name is Madison Pinkney, and I'm a legal fellow at the disability program at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest.