We’re a little bit overwhelmed by what has essentially been a witch hunt in our neighborhood,” said Jud Mongell, who runs the restaurant Five Leaves on Bedford Avenue. Five Leaves, as well as the Lorimer street bistro Lokal, were both issued citations over the past several weeks for hosting outdoor tables on Sunday mornings. Mongell is scruffy, with a patch of a beard, and he left the meeting feeling agitated: “For me, it’s like people being forced to the back of a bus in the fifties. It’s like, why?
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