This summer is the end of outdoor dining as we know it

New York City’s streets and sidewalks could look very different starting on Aug. 3.

That’s the deadline for restaurants to either apply for the city’s new outdoor dining program or take down their roadway dining structures, which occupy parking spaces or other parts of the street.

After four years of free, loosely regulated outdoor dining, the new program overseen by the city’s Department of Transportation will add fees, limit sidewalk seating and make roadway sheds hew to a few pre-approved designs, which must come down by December but can go back up in April.