Stop the Standard East
Village
Three
years ago the East Fifth Street Block Association agreed the Standard East
Village Hotel could double its outdoor drinking/dining capacity if it enclosed
60% of its 5th St outdoor service area. Despite never having built
the enclosure, its Bowery Café is in full swing and the hotel now seeks another
60% increase in outdoor Fifth Street dining
(in the very area it promised to enclose). It also seeks to remain open two hours later per night in the area
originally agreed to be “a quiet gathering place for patrons and their guests”
because it abuts a residential tenement building and faces a home for the
elderly.
SEV’s
request for later hours of more restaurant seating on Fifth Street, combined
with its Bowery café open till 1
a.m. and new crowds from Cooper Square’s
forthcoming “Village Plaza” open park,
will create intolerable living conditions for SEV’s nearest neighbors—and turn
our residential street, neighborhood, and backyard into what one council member
has called “Disneyland with alcohol.”
SEV
already has total dining capacity of 343, 140 of that outdoors. Their request
for more and later dining on Fifth Street is a greedy and blatant reversal of
the agreed shift of outdoor activity away from its residential neighbors to the
avenue.
Join your neighbors in letting SEV know ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Sign our petition
opposing any action by SEV to extend outdoor service at the cost of their
neighbors’ peace and quiet, and make your voice heard at the CB3 SLA Committee
meeting Mon, April 20th @ 6:30 p.m.
SAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.
The Standard keeps promising to be a good neighbor and then they want to expand their hours, the number and the size of their restaurants. They are at the end of a residential street, across the street from a senior citizen's care facility. ENough is enough, they shouldn't be allowed to expand beyond the current size!!!!!