Majority Leader Van Bramer’s bills will hit businesses where it hurts by increasing fines and allowing the Department of Consumer Affairs to revoke the business licenses of repeat offenders.
The first bill, Intro 1179-2016, makes parking vehicles in a sidewalk or crosswalk a violation for the following types of DCA-licensed businesses: used car dealers, parking garages and lots, tow companies, and car washes. The bill states the commissioner will suspend or revoke the license of businesses found to be in violation more than twice in one year. The second bill, Intro 1180-2016, directs the commissioner of Finance to implement increasing penalties for repeat violators.
This is all well and good, but have you ever tried to get DCA to inspect a business? You'd be better off calling NYPD.
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Why only USED car dealers? So it's OK for new car dealers such as Queens Ford to completely block the sidewalk they have appropriated as part of their "showroom"? I don't think you'd be better off calling NYPD vs. DCA, because NYPD does not respond to calls made about the blocked sidewalks, double parked cars and cars actually parked on the median strip (!) They are obviously paid off by Queens Ford, and probably any other car dealer.
Aren't we at the beginning of a campaign Cycle? Crowley and JVB are both introducing legislation/projects that will amount to nothing. No one alive today will ever see a light rail line between Brooklyn and Queens. and Everything JVB introduces will be ineffective (Unless it has to do with Illegal immigrants or LGBT people)
Let’s see………this is an illegal activity that has been going on forever and NOW they want to do something. Why do I have a feeling that this bill will not pass. Don’t want to take those big political contributions away from elected officials from the big car dealers. Of course such a bill would make perfect sense, increase the fines and have the businesse’s license revoked, but remember our leaders don’t give a shit about US (especially people of color) but rather about the businesses that pad their pockets.
Let’s see if it passes, which of course it should since that would be the best interest of the community and the safety of it’s constituents………………but why let that get in the way of good old fashion GRAFT.
This is a common practice here in Jamaica with all the dealership and even worse with those thug auto body shops,but do you think any elected official in our area would have introduced this bill, you know Cook, Scarborough, Comrie, Miller, Wills. OF COURSE NOT, especially those clowns. But the asshole City Council sure knew how to pass a 32% raise increase for themselves for basically what is a part-time job of photo ops, street naming ceremonies and other assorted bullshit.
In the meantime, NYPD, which should be cracking down on these businesses and other culprits like auto body shops parking illegally their junked cars, especially in communities of color, instead focus on handing out tickets to law abiding residents who have done nothing illegal and again in communities of color.
So instead of focusing on the actual culprits, it is the little person who does nothing wrong that will get a ticket.
What a fucking fucked up city.
No Vendors blocking sidewalks with cheap Chinese junk in Jamaica then too I'm guessing
Will they show "it"?
What can we do to get the city to remove sidewalk-blocking phone booths that only homeless use as toilets, and the new million dollar wi-fi kiosks that no one uses for any reason at all? The sidewalks continue to fill up with shit that blocks walking.
You wouldn't need a new bill if the idiots in charge would just enforce THE LAW!!!
Parking on the sidewalk: illegal. Parking in a crosswalk: illegal.
Ticket offenders twice a day. They will get the hint. A car with no plates? Tow it.
Why do we need new laws because current ones are not enforced?
Lazy politicians and police.
How about the Halal food vendors in their wheeled kiosks that sit on many street corners and dump their waste in city receptacles and stain the sidewalks with cooking fluids?
Nah, can't chase them because they have allah on their side.
>phone booths
How many phone booths are left on city streets? What few pay phones remain aren't enclosed.
Obama today dictated that ALL SCHOOLS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY must have gender fluid bathrooms and locker rooms so Gender Identity students now and forever referred to as GI JOE/Sophines can tinkle with Anthony Weiners looking over the little ones shoulders.
Police aren't lazy or crazy,if you need help in any emergency call a politician,BLM are running the show,
BLM/ Burn,Loot,Murder Sorry your on your own.
The car wash on the corner of Metropolitan and Alderton is allowed to freely use the sidewalk, blocking it with cars after they're washed and making the whole corner slick with soapy/waxy runoff.
How about some restrictions on those outdoor cafes that clog sidewalks and make noise.
Van Bramer buggering small businesses in the butt.
Getting bored Jimmy?
HOW ABOUT A BILL THAT TARGETS ILLEGAL STREET VENDORS??
Good. The car wash on alderton does a lot more for the community than the pieces of crap walking down the sidewalk to spend their welfare money on scratch offs.
Go business. Screw you, foreign leeches.
Why do we need new laws because current ones are not enforced?
That is easy - it keeps them on the front page of the Gazette (remember when it actually had news instead of tiresome restaurant ads)?
Glendale Cypress ave is a nightmare. The car dealerships suck. They run this street like the slums of a third world Country. Cars on the sidewalk and street from dealerships and illegal street mechanics. These people are so dirty , loud and rude. They don't even live in Queens. They come from East New York.Police don't want to get involved. Sometimes they ticket and tow but not enough!Vote Trump! Get these liberals out!
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