Three City Council Members are defending your right to eat crab benedict al fresco and loudly discuss how autocorrect changed "bar" to "butt" in that hilaaaaarious text you sent last night. In response to the recent grumbling by Williamsburg and Greenpoint locals over noisy heathens who would befoul the Sabbath, Dan Garodnick, Steve Levin, and Diana Reyna will propose legislation to allow sidewalk cafes to open two hours earlier on Sundays, at 10 a.m. “New Yorkers will not be denied their Sunday brunch in the beautiful weather,” Garodnick says in a release. Now, Sunday brunches will only be denied by mobs of desperately hungry people, screaming babies, obscenely indecisive friends, and the G train.
Council Member Steve Levin makes the most salient point: “The law that exists now does not reflect the reality that folks eat brunch before noon on Sundays." Indeed, that law is probably just as often obeyed by restauranteurs as the one prohibiting alcohol sales before noon on Sundays.
And it is illegal to serve booze before noon on Sundays, as SLA spokesman William Crowley confirms. Isn't that why people eat brunch anyway? We're all for eating outdoors before noon, but for the sake of migraine-ridden ruffians and the servers who need their tips, we'd say this law needs a Greyhound Amendment.
