{"id":334168,"date":"2026-08-31T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334168\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:08:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-nyc-restaurants-can-now-offer-outdoor-dining-year-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334168\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Nyc Restaurants Can Now Offer Outdoor Dining Year Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Restaurants across New York City will now be allowed to offer outdoor dining throughout the year after Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed legislation eliminating seasonal restrictions on the program Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Supporters of the measure say year-round outdoor dining will help small businesses by providing additional seating and attracting more customers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Not everyone backed the change. Some opponents raised concerns that outdoor dining structures could create obstacles for emergency responders and complicate access during medical emergencies.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The new law also allows restaurants to weatherproof outdoor dining setups, enabling them to operate during the fall and winter months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Restaurants across New York City will now be allowed to offer outdoor dining throughout the year after Mayor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-334168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}