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CMV: NYC should not allow restaurants to obstruct streets/sidewalks with "outdooor-indoor" dining

Ever since the pandemic began, NYC (and several other cities I'm sure) has allowed restaurants to open booths in the sidewalk/street right outside their storefront to let diners enjoy meals outside with some of the comforts of indoor dining. This made perfect sense at the beginning of the pandemic when businesses were forced to close at the hand of government mandates, but no longer makes sense today. There is no reason that the restaurant should get additional space rent-free at the expense of nuisance to drivers/pedestrians. City traffic is already a shitshow, and these do nothing but exacerbate the problem.
gpt
Wait, this is a novelty for US cities? Booths in the sidewalk/street are actually a normal thing in most of the world - it allows restaurants to have larger capacity and allows for parts of the city to become more active instead of having cars riding the street and people busily walking through sidewalks.

More people using local restaurants mean more tax income for local authorities to use on more things that money is used for.

How exactly that is a nuisance anyway? Those are still make it perfectly able for cars to use streets and people to walk through the blocks. Where is the issue?