Int 1444-2025
Setting a maximum pedestrian path requirement in front of sidewalk cafes.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Transportation and Infrastructureintroduced 2025-10-29
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2025-10-29Passed: 2025-12-31
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.
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Mass transportation agencies and facilities, Taxi and Limousine Commission, Department of Transportation and New York City Transit Authority, and the Department of Design and Construction and matters related to infrastructure projects within New York City.
How it compares
16% of similar bills passed
8 passed · 42 died
This bill: 62 days in committee
Similar bills: median 440 days · 135 days when passed
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Sponsors (5)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2025-10-29 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2025-10-29 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2025-11-24 · Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2025-11-24 · Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2025-11-24 · Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2025-11-24 · Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2025-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (5)
Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection · 2025-11-24 · 10:00 AM · 250 Broadway - 8th Floor - Hearing Room 1
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure · 2025-11-24 · 10:00 AM · 250 Broadway - 8th Floor - Hearing Room 1
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure · 2025-11-17 · 10:00 AM · 250 Broadway - 8th Floor - Hearing Room 1
Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection · 2025-11-17 · 10:00 AM · 250 Broadway - 8th Floor - Hearing Room 1
City Council · 2025-10-29 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (10)
- Summary of Int. No. 1444
- Int. No. 1444
- October 29, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-29-25
- Committee Report 11/24/25
- Hearing Testimony 11/24/25
- Appearance Cards 11/24/25
- Hearing Transcript 11/24/25
- Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB
- Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council
Full text
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
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