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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR' s Beat on the Street with Natalie Migliore. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the city's excited and the restaurants are excited because we're
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  Speaker 1: going to have year-round outdoor dining.
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  Speaker 2: But how do people feel about that? You know, the
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  Speaker 2: ones that aren't making any money on it. Let's get
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  Speaker 2: to Natalie Migliore and her Beat on the Street.
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  Speaker 3: Natalie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Look, on a day like today, not sure if you
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  Speaker 3: really want to eat outside when it's misting on your
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  Speaker 3: morning commute and... You could kind of feel the chill.
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  Speaker 3: Larry making fun of me saying I'm cold this morning.
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  Speaker 3: I have my jacket on.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a winter jacket. No, it gets chilly in here.
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  Speaker 3: But it comes after Mayor Mamdani signed a law making
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  Speaker 3: year round outdoor dining permanent. It amends the previous law
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  Speaker 3: requiring eateries remove roadway dining. So setups in the road
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  Speaker 3: that looks like, you know, sheds in your backyard by
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  Speaker 3: November 30th.
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  Speaker 2: An array of opinions from New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all for the experience. I think New York City
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  Speaker 2: deserves some outdoor experience.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, more space.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes the outside's better than the inside at some places.
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  Speaker 4: I'm for helping the restaurants out to be able to
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  Speaker 4: support their customers and the public. But it's a drag
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  Speaker 4: when they're all back-to-back on the same block and there's
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  Speaker 4: no parking. So there's got to be some kind of
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  Speaker 4: balance that could be achieved.
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, I'm kind of scared even eating outside in New
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  Speaker 5: York at all.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I typically see people chopping away alfresco with smiles
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  Speaker 3: on their faces. But this New Yorker has deeper issues
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  Speaker 3: with the setups.
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  Speaker 5: Well, honestly, I think that's a big health risk. I
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  Speaker 5: don't really agree with it because there's like a lot
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  Speaker 5: of pollution here. Like it goes into the food and
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  Speaker 5: that's what they're eating. Especially for some other people that
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  Speaker 5: walk dogs, they don't pick up their dog's poop. So
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  Speaker 5: it like stays on the street. And that's honestly not
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  Speaker 5: really pleasing to look at. So it's like, how could
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  Speaker 5: you eat and look out on whatever's on the street?
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point. No, excellent point. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: you remember our last February where we were in a
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  Speaker 1: deep freeze for like three straight weeks? Ain't nobody going
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  Speaker 1: to be sitting in those shacks having meals. And you
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  Speaker 1: have to leave them up for the year.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy. I already have my winter jacket on. Who's
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  Speaker 3: going to want to eat outside then? Look, when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to health risks, she may not be wrong. This
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  Speaker 3: morning on my way in, I passed a guy sleeping
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  Speaker 3: across three or four chairs in an outdoor dining set up.
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  Speaker 2: I took a picture of it.
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  Speaker 3: Think about who's going to sit there for lunch later
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  Speaker 3: this afternoon if it clears up.
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  Speaker 2: So I can't sit with a homeless guy.
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  Speaker 3: But either way, drivers know where the dining sheds are.
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  Speaker 2: And what they need to beware of.
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  Speaker 3: I would say around the universities is probably where there's
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  Speaker 3: most congestion and there's a lot of really nice cars
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  Speaker 3: in that area too.
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  Speaker 2: So parking between a Lambo or a Hellcat isn't easy.
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  Speaker 4: It's reduced the number of spaces available and when people
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  Speaker 4: need to go and pick things up or go to
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  Speaker 4: appointments or make stops. Sometimes it can be challenging, especially
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  Speaker 4: on some of the roads where there's only one lane
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  Speaker 4: and it can kind of block traffic with double parking
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  Speaker 4: and everything. But I trust Mamdani. I think he can
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  Speaker 4: figure it out. Fix it, Mamdani.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Mamdani's answer to this is somewhat loosening regulations and
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  Speaker 3: speeding up the permitting process for it.
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  Speaker 2: So not sure how much he's really going to fix it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is new shelters for the homeless, let's face it,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what they're going to end up being used.
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  Speaker 1: Just as you saw this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Think of it.
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  Speaker 1: If you were living out in the streets and you
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  Speaker 1: see one of these shacks, you're shacking up in that shack.
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  Speaker 3: At the height of COVID or when we were just
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  Speaker 3: coming back and these things were still there, I saw
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  Speaker 3: it all the time on the street.
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  Speaker 2: And they put mattresses in there, too.
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  Speaker 1: Well, anyway, thank you, Natalie. Same time, same place tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I see you'll be in Philly on the weekend. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be in Philly Friday night. Maybe we'll talk about it
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  Speaker 1: before the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, hush, hush, mosh, mosh.