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The head of the restive Council said lawmakers are struggling to account for the needs of restaurant owners as well as the differing needs of the many diverse neighborhoods of the city, Adams said at a Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce breakfast.

Well, at least one agency thinks it's going to be running the Open Restaurant program.

Mayor Adams is pushing the City Council to keep the Department of Transportation in charge of outdoor dining, rather than move it to the much smaller Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, a move that advocates fear would sabotage the popular al-fresco "streeteries."

A panel of state judges has stalled a community lawsuit against the city's open restaurant program — but not because the suit lacks merit, but simply because it's too early to claim damages from an initiative that is in the middle of a legislative process to become a permanent fixture of New York City life.

Welcome to the latest in Streetsblog’s ongoing coverage of revanchist movements across the city. Today's edition? Anti-restaurant protesters.

"Stay tuned," was all a City Hall spokesman would say when pressed by Streetsblog.

A bubbly Mayor de Blasio announced a major, and streamlined, open streets for restaurants plan that, he says, will save 5,000 eateries and their 45,000 employees.

If it's Friday, the mayor is getting his bib on.

No, really, don't make him come down here, Mayor de Blasio — do something.

Mayor de Blasio is too myopic when it comes to rethinking street space to help struggling New Yorkers during the COVID-19 crisis, lawmakers charged on Thursday.