New York City is finally getting the street life it deserves

For the past four years, New York City’s streets have become the unexpected site of a grand architectural experiment. I’m referring to the thousands of outdoor dining structures that have cropped up since the pandemic. They started out as temporary lifelines cobbled together from whatever restaurants could find—think plywood, corrugated polycarbonate, and the occasional garland of fake flowers—and eventually became as creatively designed as the city’s restaurants themselves.[Image:...