Oh thank God, finally we will have a place to catch a high-toned meal inside Union Square Park.

Otherwise we’d have to cross the street.

We are a city filled with crusaders, from organizers for tenant rights and sick days, to those more quixotic souls who embrace the battle for ferret rights, or free-range goldfish. In the latter vein, credit is due to the Union Square Partnership, which, with an assist from the Bloomberg mayoralty, waged a yearslong struggle to place a high-priced restaurant in Union Square Park.

Michael R. Bloomberg now paces about the fastness of his Upper East Side mansion. But to be kept in fine fennel, to inhale kale and so spike your vitamin K levels, to savor a cut of wild Siberian salmon is apparently still to be regarded as a birthright. Even in an elegant old pavilion in a densely packed 3.6-acre park.

A coalition of neighborhood residents battled this restaurant and the case went to the New York State courts, which recently ruled in favor of the partnership. A judge asked a Law Department lawyer, Deborah A. Brenner, if more or less any restaurant could be regarded as an appropriate “park use.” This, she allowed, was correct, although she felt compelled to add: “I mean, I could envision a case where if 98 percent of a park were being turned into a food court, that might be a problem.”