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Application from Norikoh K.O.H. Inc, d/b/a “Norikoh”, for a new unenclosed sidewalk café with 10 tables and 20 chairs at 43 West 24th Street (between 5th/6th Avenues)
At the regularly scheduled monthly Community Board Five meeting on Thursday, November 14, 2019, the following resolution passed with a vote of 31 in favor; 0 opposed; 1 abstaining:
WHEREAS, Norikoh K.O.H. Inc., operating as Norikoh (“Applicant”), has submitted an application to install and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café at 43 West 24th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues); and
WHEREAS, The café will operate daily from 11 AM, and will close Sundays by 10 PM and Monday thru Saturday by 11 PM with such hours of operation being similar to and consistent with those approved by other sidewalk cafes in 24th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue; and
WHEREAS, The proposed café would have 10 tables seating two each, using twenty (20) chairs; and
WHEREAS, The proposed café would be installed within the statutorily prescribed distances required from the curb so as to allow unobstructed pedestrian sidewalk passage on West 24th Street; and
WHEREAS, Community Board Five seeks to preserve an acceptable amount of space on the sidewalk on 24th Street, and to hold this operation to a standard consistent with the other sidewalk cafés previously approved by Community Board Five; and
WHEREAS, Applicant modified their application to DCA in response to these concerns from Community Board Five, reducing their number of tables by 3 (and number of seats by 6), thereby removing one row of tables from the proposed café, resulting in an increase of two feet of pedestrian space on the sidewalk; and
WHEREAS, There will be no additional lighting, signage, or amplified sound; and
WHEREAS, Norikoh will not serve liquor unless and until it has been granted a license by the SLA; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, Community Board Five recommends approval of the application from Norikoh K.O.H. Inc, d/b/a “Norikoh”, for a new unenclosed sidewalk café with 10 tables and 20 chairs at 43 West 24th Street (between 5th/6th Avenues).