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Barely Legal. This takes the cake. Sal Anthony’s Neighborhood Restaurant on Irving Place (between 17th and 18th) pushes the limits of window box, sidewalk, roof-top gardening in the city.
In a dazzling mish-mosh of pots, planter boxes, miscellaneous tubs and hanging planters live an explosive myriad of plant life – nothing too exotic by itself, but collectively it is one of the most expressive, jubilant landscapes I’ve seen in the city.
As I passed by, snapping these photos, I wondered if this was even legal – in this time of strict municipal zoning and laws related especially to restaurants (smoking, liquor licensing, noise), it was refreshing to see that a restaurant owner really could go over the edge with their gardening habit, without getting arrested. skgr
Is the food any good?
check out inside Souen restaurant (on13th st.) for an all year flowerbox
Wow, having too many flowers is illegal? Bizairre...
My husband works just down the block, so we meet here for dinner occasionally. The plantings have gotten more voluminous with each passing year.
Sal Anthony just opened a plant store around the corner, which similarly spills out into the street.
The food is good, the service is good
and the flowers and plants are beautiful.
Why carry on about the legality of flowers when
we have the Bushes and cronies surrounding
us.
My understanding is that it's legal as long as it doesn't block the sidewalk.
are you seriously complaining about having GREEN living things that are making the area more beautiful and the air cleaner and better to breath? perhaps you'd prefer some plastic plants and pink flamingos??? what a ridiculous complaint?