File #: Int 1444-2025    Version: * Name: Setting a maximum pedestrian path requirement in front of sidewalk cafes.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 10/29/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to setting a maximum pedestrian path requirement in front of sidewalk cafes
Sponsors: Keith Powers , Julie Menin, Lincoln Restler, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would limit the requirement for sidewalk cafes to leave a clear path on the sidewalk in front of them to no more than 8 feet in width.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1444, 2. Int. No. 1444, 3. October 29, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1444

 

By Council Members Powers, Menin, Restler and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to setting a maximum pedestrian path requirement in front of sidewalk cafes

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 19-160 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 121 for the year 2023, is by adding a new subdivision k to read as follows: 

k. No rule promulgated by the department in relation to the license granted to a sidewalk cafe in accordance with subdivision b of this section shall require that a clear path of more than 8 feet of the width of the sidewalk remain clear after the installation of such sidewalk cafe.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

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LS #16639, 19551, 19961

10/15/2025