There weren’t enough members for a quorum, so all votes are provisional—in other words, these are recommendations for the full board to vote on later in the month.

SPECIAL PHYSICAL CULTURE PERMIT: T. KANG TAEKWONDO (85 WORTH)
This item wasn’t added to the agenda until the last minute—the community board’s computer network crashed—so the committee fretted that residents who might object to it wouldn’t have known to show up at the meeting. This despite the fact that T. Kang has been on Worth since October of 2011, and, if I remember correctly, on Broadway before that; moreover, a big part of the clientele is children. (Fitness businesses have to get permits so the city knows they’re not bathhouses, but T. Kang didn’t know that.) The committee finally decided that maybe approving it wasn’t that big of a deal. Vote: 4-0.

SIDEWALK CAFÉ PERMIT AND LIQUOR LICENSE ALTERATION: DYLAN PRIME (429 GREENWICH/62 LAIGHT)
Dylan Prime wanted 32 tables with 64 seats—from zero to “the biggest sidewalk café in Tribeca,” in one committee member’s words. Even worse, 20 of the tables would be on Laight, a side street. The committee frowns on side-street sidewalk cafés unless the business is on a corner, in which case it tries to make sure the tables don’t go too far into the side street. (That’s a summary of 40 minutes of discussion.) The residents of 429 Greenwich have signed off on the plan, but the committee thought the café could still disturb the neighborhood, if not in its current somewhat sparse state then at a later date, when the current wave of development subsides. Dylan Prime agreed to ditch the eight tables to the east of the entrance on Laight, and there was a vote: 4-0-1. (One member didn’t feel she had enough information, as if Edward Snowden was going to submit secret documents any day now….) Then the committee had to vote on the outdoor liquor-license hours. I think the vote was 6-0 for midnight Sunday through Wednesday and 1 a.m. Thursday through Saturday, but I could be wrong. I was busy realizing that the meeting would be going on for two hours, at least.

SIDEWALK CAFÉ PERMIT: AMERICAN FLATBREAD TRIBECA HEARTH (205 HUDSON)
The good news: A member arrived an hour into the meeting. The bad news: still no quorum. American Flatbread wants to put picnic tables—most of which seat six rather hypothetical customers—along its Hudson side, with two sort of on the corner of Desbrosses. The building is beveled, if that’s the right word (see pic), so the tables wouldn’t exactly be on Desbrosses, but a resident of 195 Hudson (not Bey or Jay, alas)—possibly bearing a grudge about longstanding issues with the two event spaces atop the building, both of which are owned by American Flatbread’s owner—said that she and her neighbors are worried that those two corner tables would become a nuisance. (Presuming you could hear anyone over the Holland Tunnel traffic…?) Then again, at a previous meeting, the committee had already granted the restaurant’s sidewalk seating the ability to serve hooch till midnight on weekdays and 1 a.m. on weekends…. The committee asked the restaurant’s rep to call the owner about ditching one table closest to Desbrosses; if residents complain a lot he’ll get rid of the second one. Vote: 5-0-1.

LIQUOR LICENSE ALTERATION: MAXWELL’S (59 READE)
The very best moment in an otherwise drudge of a meeting came 10 minutes into the discussion of the liquor-license application for the sidewalk seating at Maxwell’s on Reade, when a member realized aloud that we weren’t talking about Max on Duane. Then, even better, he asked, “Wait, is Maxwell’s open yet?” Um, yeah, for three years now. Anyway! Maxwell’s was among the first restaurants to benefit from CB1’s realization that the city doesn’t care if the committee doesn’t want cafés on certain streets, and that the committee’s only leverage is on the state issue of the hours that alcohol can be served outside. Maxwell’s had already had its café application approved, but it had to come back for the liquor part. It wanted 11 p.m./midnight (weekdays/weekends), but that struck the committee as too late. Tre Sorelle next door had been given 10 p.m. seven nights a week, but some members grasped that Tre Sorelle is a different kind of establishment than Maxwell’s. After far too much discussion, a vote was held on 10 p.m./10:30 p.m.: 5-0. No one broached the possibility that Maxwell’s might come back after a year of sidewalk café to see if it can go later, but if it were me, I certainly would. Update 7/11: I hear from someone at the meeting that a board memeber did in fact say as much to Maxwell’s; I may have had my head between my knees.

LIQUOR LICENSE APPLICATION: 349 GREENWICH
Discussed here.

LIQUOR LICENSE APPLICATION: 79 CHAMBERS (SUSHI DOJO)
Discussed here.

SIDEWALK CAFÉ PERMIT RENEWAL: DAHLIA’S (FORMERLY MARYANN’S)
I had to leave before this item—I had an appointment with Mr. Tanqueray—but if the café is the same as it exists now, I can’t imagine any objections.

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