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1. Setting the Table 2. Kitchen Essentials 3. Take-Aways 4. The Invitation 5. Recipes for Openness Annie Scott, Florence Methot, Liza Otto, & Mimi Liebenberg
SETTING THE TABLE Covid-19 & the Food Service Industry
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Small Businesses Pulse Survey: Food service industry most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. 1. Utilities 11% 2. Mining and quarrying 38% 3. Real Estate 20% 4. Professional Services 19% 5. Management 19% 6. Waste Management 24% 7. Educational Services 50% 8. Health Care 23% 9. Arts and Recreation 51% 10. Food Services 60% 11. Finance 10% 12. Construction 17% 13. Manufacturing 25% 14. Wholesale trade 27% 15. Retail trade 21% 16. Transportation 28% 17. Information 23% Source: US Census Bureau, May 2021
+ 15 % + 10 % + 5% - 5% - 10 % Waste collection increase [2019-2020] per community Source: Open data NYC, 2021
Density & Void Density of Population per Sanitary District & Principle Nationalities by Sanitary District [The Tenement House Committee, 1894] Map of Central Park, [Olmstead & Vaux, 1858] “Evolution of a City Building Under the Zoning Law” NY Times [Hugh Ferris, 1922]
Food Culture & Sanitation “The history of the New York oyster is a history of New York itself—its wealth, its strength, its excitement, its greed, its thoughtfulness, its destructiveness, its blindness, and—as any New Yorker will tell you—its filth.” [Kurlansky, 2006]
Economic exchange is no stranger to the NYC streetscape. Oysters were the city’s first street food, eaten originally by the Lenape people and early European settlers. After too many complaints about the unsanitary and unsafe conditions of pushcarts, city officials started pushing back against food carts. By the 1930s, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia made it a mission to eradicate “pushcart evil” and called it a “blemish on the face of the city.” New laws regulating street food and vendors began under LaGuardia, beginning with the prohibition of goods being sold on the street.
During the Great Depression, apple vending was taken up by the unemployed, and the city streets became littered with apple cores.
KITCHEN ESSENTIALS New York City Streets & Their Programming
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Open Streets DEP Green Infrastructure Projects Existing BIDs Subsewershed Combined Sewershed
Sidewalk Occupancy Regulations
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DOT Storefront and sidewalk occupancy regulations.
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DOT Outdoor dining regulations before the Covid-19 pandemic.
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DOT Outdoor dining regulations following the Covid-19 outbreak.
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DOT Roadside seating regulations adjacent to bikelane.
Open Restaurants Street Sheds
TAKE-AWAYS Open Restaurants in the East Village
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Bike Routes Open Streets Outdoor Dinning Parks Sidewalks Building Footprints C1-5 Zoning C2-5 Zoning St. Mark’s Place Open Restaurants Density
Problem #1: Circulation With the permission of roadside cafes to incrementally occupy the parking spots outside their storefronts, we notice many complications for the passage of pedestrians, bikers, restaurant employees and their customers.
Incremental Takeover
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Problem #2: Environment
fire hazards accumulation of clutter
debris build up
pressure on street trees futile weatherproofing
dangerous wiring trash pileup
You’re Invited!
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AN NYC OPEN PROGRAM OPEN BLOCKS is a block-by-block, city-wide scale, multiphase initiative to reinvigorate small businesses impacted by Covid-19 and bring New York City street infrastructure up to date. Qualifying BIDS, community organizations, or groups of three or more small businesses are welcome to apply. Contribute to the implementation of pervious streets, curb elimination, which decelerates stormwater flow, and street trees installed in sustainable growing conditions. In exchange for participation, BIDS and small businesses will have street occupancy for seven years. After the initial transition period the BID will have the option to continue.
“CHANGE BLOCK-BY-BLOCK”
5. RECIPES FO
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St. Mark’s Place Site Plan HORS D’OEUVRE
Sara Curry Day School
Physical Graffitea
Tompkins Square Park
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Swiss Institute
Club 57
APPETIZER
William Barnacle
St-Marks Theater
1st Ave. - 2nd Ave. 0 10 20
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St.Marks Hotel
Hamilton-Holly House
German-Americ
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Daniel Leroy House
Gem Spa
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Hors D’Oeuvre SHAREABLES
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Community painted murals to signify the occupation of the parking lane.
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The street curb is converted into a pedestran path so that outdoor dining can revert to storefronts.
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Crack gardens are sledgehammered into existing sidewalk flags where appropriate to permit native plantings.
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Shareable tables provided by the city, or collectively cared for by businesses can occupy the new sidewalk space.
Appetizer PA L AT E C L E A N S E
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Narrow the curbs and ramp up gently at the entrance of each block to calm traffic and create a curbless street.
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Convert existing street tree beds into rain gardens for stormwater infiltration.
Existing sidewalk flags to remain where appropriate considering access.
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Existing curb is maintained where possible or repaired to delineate new dynamic zones.
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Install Silva Cells beneath pervious pavers to provide structure for root growth of new street trees and future manipulations and maintenance to the street landscape.
Pervious NYC Hexagon Paver
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Pervious Grass Paver
Liquidambar styraciflua 'Slender Silhouette',Slender Silhouette Sweetgum Panicum virgatum 'Shenandoah',Shenandoah Switch Grass Panicum virgatum 'Cape Breeze',Cape Breeze Switch Grass Rudbeckia hirta,Black Eyed Susan Solidago rugosa 'fireworks',Fireworks Goldenrod Penstemon digitalis 'Husker Red',Husker Red Penstemon Schizachyrium scoparium 'The Blues',The Blues Little Bluestem
Amelanchier canadensis,Shadblow Serviceberry
Nyssa sylvatica 'Green Gable',Black Tupelo Magnolia virginiana 'Jim Willson' Moonglow,Sweet Bay Magnolia
Quercus phellos,Willow Oak
Entrée MAIN ATTRACTION
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Dynamic landscape - flexible for varied programs and future adaptations
Businesses and property owners can increase biomass and shade on the the street with implementation of trellises.
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Planting plan and planting list reflect intent to maximize potential of Silva Cell planting and created layered effect within the canopy and understory. Trees: Serviceberry Hackberry Hawthorne Sweetgum Sweetbay Magnolia Blackgum Columnar Pin Oak Vines: Carolina Jessamine Trumpet Honeysuckle
Perennials: Butterfly Weed New England Aster False Indigo Tufted Hairgrass Purple Lovegrass Common Sneeze Weed Blazing Star Muhly Grass Switchgrass Beardtongue Little Bluestem Seaside Goldenrod
Alkaline Loving Perennials: Sedum “Autumn Joy” Black-eyed Susans Rudbeckia Hirta Aquilegia Spp. Columbine Solidago Spp. Goldenrod Phlox Divaricata Woodland Phlox Achillea Millefolium Yarrow
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NYC street vendors and food trucks can apply for permits to sell their goods.
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Performances can occur in accordance with NYC’s Open Culture Program.
Digestif A B O V E & B E LO W 1. Porous Pavers 2. Silva Cell System 3. Service and Emergency Access Lane 4. Existing Street Tree 5. New Street Tree 6. Stormwater Infiltration Garden
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Dessert FOOD FOR THOUGHT Block-by-block the cityscape will be transformed with a top-down and bottom-up approach creating a network of green infrastructure nodes that will allow the city to grow and adapt over time.
Open Streets-turned-Open Blocks Area of existing BIDs Current DEP Green Infrastructure Program Projects