Thousands of additional outdoor spaces bloomed during COVID and the city mayor has declared they can stay open during warmer months.
The sound of clinking wineglasses floated through the evening air recently as throngs of patrons sipped chilled rose and nibbled on cheese plates in front of the cafes, restaurants and epiceries bordering Place d’Aligre in the Bastille district of Paris.
The Place d’Aligre is one of them. Mostly empty at night before 2020, a vibrant transformation has unfolded here. “It’s so lovely here,” said Claire-Anne Haines, an event organiser who was hemmed behind a tiny table with her friends at a bistro’s parking-space terrace on the Rue Condorcet in Montmartre. “The terrace looked nice while I was biking past, so I told my friends to come,” she said.
“The situation is infernal,” said Eric Durand, a spokesperson for Droit au Sommeil, or Right to Sleep, a citizens group with representatives in every section of Paris.The cacophony has grown exponentially where he lives, near the Rue des Abbesses in Montmartre, he said. Some neighbours have moved away. Those who can’t afford to are forced to keep their windows closed or – a horror to Parisians – buy air-conditioning units to keep cool on summer nights when the terraces are going full blast.
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