N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 20-345: § 20-345 Hearing; amendment of license.

a. No application for the issuance of a license shall be denied by the commissioner until after a hearing, held on due notice to the applicant, at which the applicant shall be entitled to be heard upon the qualifications of the applicant and the merits of the application.

b. Any license issued under this subchapter and article fourteen-H of the general municipal law may be amended, upon application made to the commissioner who issued it, if the subject matter of the proposed amendment could lawfully and properly have been included in the original license and upon payment of such additional license fee, if any, as would have been payable if it had been so included.