This is a report showing the distribution of square footage of enclosed vs unenclosed sidewalk cafes in NYC. It is based on the latest release of data by NYC at the time of report generation.This report was Sun Apr 03 16:21:06 2022.

The data was split into two dataframes containing enclosed and unenclosed data using the following code:

The data was then plotted with this code:

boxplot(enclosed$Lic.Area.Sq.Ft, unenclosed$Lic.Area.Sq.Ft, names = c("Enclosed","Unenclosed"), main = "NYC Sidewalk Cafe Size" )

Summary

The median size of the reported 139 enclosed cafes is 325.5 square feet. The largest enclosed cafe is 1044 square feet and the smallest is 1 square foot.

The median size of the reported 834 enclosed cafes is 202 square feet. The largest enclosed cafe is 1300 square feet and the smallest is 30 square feet.