The Times Square Alliance has issued a request for as many as five vendors to provide light food and drink service to its heavily use pedestrian plazas, according to an article in today's edition of The Wall Street Journal by Sumathi Reddy.
The restaurants or delivery services would be contracted to service outdoor areas Times Square with a total of about 100 tables and 350 chairs. Tim Tompkins, the president of the alliance, said the pilot program will likely begin in mid-summer and run for a year before being evaluated, the article said.
Food carts and trucks are not welcome into the program, the article said, "as the Alliance does not want to add large, permanent structures to the mix."
"Part of the notion here is the plazas were created to reduce clutter. So we're not going to add more tables and chairs and we don't want to have a truck parked in the middle of the street," Mr. Tompkins told the Journal.
Earlier this month, the article continued, Friends of the High Line put out a request for proposals for five mobile food units or kiosks at the elevated public park on the west side of Manhattan, and the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership is hoping to open food concessions at two Department of Transportation-created public plazas at Flatiron Plaza South and North near Madison Square Park.
The restaurants or delivery services would be contracted to service outdoor areas Times Square with a total of about 100 tables and 350 chairs. Tim Tompkins, the president of the alliance, said the pilot program will likely begin in mid-summer and run for a year before being evaluated, the article said.
Food carts and trucks are not welcome into the program, the article said, "as the Alliance does not want to add large, permanent structures to the mix."
"Part of the notion here is the plazas were created to reduce clutter. So we're not going to add more tables and chairs and we don't want to have a truck parked in the middle of the street," Mr. Tompkins told the Journal.
Earlier this month, the article continued, Friends of the High Line put out a request for proposals for five mobile food units or kiosks at the elevated public park on the west side of Manhattan, and the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership is hoping to open food concessions at two Department of Transportation-created public plazas at Flatiron Plaza South and North near Madison Square Park.
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Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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