QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) -- A total of 60 restaurants across Queens will split $2 million to make outdoor dining areas that too often look like eyesores get a look clean and become compliant with new city codes.
Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-NY) helped secure the grant.
Jessica Rico, owner of Mojitos Restaurant in Flushing, said that without the federal money, she might not have been able to keep her outdoor dining space.
Restaurants across New York City that built temporary COVID-19-era dining sheds are facing a deadline. They must apply online by Aug. 3 for permanent outdoor dining, or they will lose their outdoor spaces entirely.
Restaurants that have their application approved must build new code-compliant designs by November. The idea is to make the city a premier outdoor dining destination with attractive, sanitary outdoor dining.
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