Special Zoning Districts Where Certain Sidewalk Cafes Are Permitted
Enclosed or unenclosed sidewalk cafes shall be permitted, as indicated, in the following special zoning districts, where allowed by the underlying zoning. Small sidewalk cafes, however, may be located on streets or portions of streets within special zoning districts pursuant to the provisions of Section 14-43 (Locations Where Only Small Sidewalk Cafes Are Permitted).
Manhattan | Enclosed Sidewalk Cafe | Unenclosed Sidewalk Cafe |
125th Street District | No | No4 |
Battery Park City District | Yes | Yes |
Clinton District | No | Yes |
East Harlem Corridors District | No | Yes |
Enhanced Commercial District 2 (Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues) | Yes | Yes |
Enhanced Commercial District 3 (Broadway/Upper West Side) | Yes | Yes |
Hudson Square District | Yes | Yes |
Inwood District | No | Yes |
Limited Commercial District | No | No1 |
Lincoln Square District | No | Yes |
Little Italy District | No | Yes |
Lower Manhattan District | No | Yes2 |
Manhattanville Mixed Use District | No3 | Yes |
SoHo-NoHo Mixed Use District | No | Yes6 |
Transit Land Use District | Yes | Yes |
Tribeca Mixed Use District | Yes | Yes |
United Nations Development District | No | Yes |
West Chelsea District | No | Yes5 |
1 Unenclosed sidewalk cafes are allowed on Greenwich Avenue.
2 Unenclosed sidewalk cafes are not allowed on State, Whitehall or Chambers Streets or Broadway.
3 Enclosed sidewalk cafes are allowed in Subdistrict B.
4 Unenclosed sidewalk cafes are allowed on the east side of Malcolm X Boulevard between West 125th and West 126th Streets, on the west side of Malcolm X Boulevard between West 124th and West 125th Streets and on the east side of Fifth Avenue between East 125th and East 126th Streets.
5 Unenclosed sidewalk cafes are allowed only on wide streets except they are not allowed on the west side of Ninth Avenue between West 15th Street and West 16th Street. Unenclosed sidewalk cafes shall also be allowed on West 27th Street between Eleventh Avenue and Joe DiMaggio Highway.
6 Unenclosed sidewalk cafes are not permitted south of Houston Street, except for small sidewalk cafes in locations designated in Section 14-43 (Locations Where Only Small Sidewalk Cafes Are Permitted)
Brooklyn | Enclosed Sidewalk Cafe | Unenclosed Sidewalk Cafe |
Bay Ridge District | Yes | Yes |
Brooklyn Navy Yard District | Yes | Yes |
Coney Island District | No | Yes |
Coney Island Mixed Use District | Yes | Yes |
Downtown Brooklyn District | Yes | Yes |
Enhanced Commercial District 1 (Fourth Avenue) | No | Yes |
Enhanced Commercial District 4 (Broadway, Bedford-Stuyvesant) | No | Yes |
Gowanus Mixed Use District | No | Yes |
Mixed Use District-8 (Greenpoint-Williamsburg) | Yes | Yes |
Ocean Parkway District1 | Yes | Yes |
Sheepshead Bay District | No | Yes |
1 Sidewalk cafes are not allowed on Ocean Parkway
The Bronx | Enclosed Sidewalk Cafe | Unenclosed Sidewalk Cafe |
City Island District | No | Yes |
Harlem River Waterfront District | No | Yes |
Jerome Corridor District | No | Yes |
Queens | Enclosed Sidewalk Cafe | Unenclosed Sidewalk Cafe |
Downtown Far Rockaway District | No | Yes |
Downtown Jamaica District | No | Yes |
Flushing Waterfront District | No | Yes |
Forest Hills District1 | No | Yes |
Long Island City Mixed Use District2 | No | Yes |
Southern Hunters Point District | No | Yes |
Willets Point District | No | Yes |
1 Sidewalk cafes are not allowed on Austin Street
2 See Appendix A in Article XI, Chapter 7
Staten Island | Enclosed Sidewalk Cafe | Unenclosed Sidewalk Cafe |
Bay Street Corridor District | Yes | Yes |
South Richmond Development District | Yes | Yes |
St. George District | Yes | Yes |
Stapleton Waterfront District | Yes | Yes |
