Does Bill de Blasio ever meet a deadline?
The infamously tardy mayor is over three months late appointing members to an advisory board established to review street vendor activity just as illegal peddlers have taken over whole sections of The Bronx, Manhattan and Queens.
A law the City Council passed in March stripping the NYPD of enforcement over street vendors required Mayor de Blasio and Speaker Corey Johnson to appoint a combined 10 members to the Street Vendor Advisory Board by April 21.
While Johnson has seated his six appointees, de Blasio has yet to choose his four representatives.
“It just goes to show you that they have no real care or sense of urgency in doing this,” said Jeff Garcia, head of the New York State Latino Restaurant, Bar and Lounge Association.
The board is supposed to review state and local laws related to street hawkers, including assuring that they’re at least 20 feet from building entrances— a rule is routinely broken by peddlers who crowd the sidewalks along Fordham Road in The Bronx, Main Street in Flushing, Queens and Canal Street in Lower Manhattan.
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Whats the problem with the sidewalk vendors? I thought we were going for that third world diverse feel.
Too many Unlicensed vendors in Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.
Am I in NYC or in Guadalajara, Mexico?
People from 3rd world countries always want to make the new cities they live in look like the slums they come from.
---What a shame.
"Make the new cities they live in look like the slums they come from"
With plenty of help from the resident Sheeple !
To last Anonymous:
Forget to feed the municipal meter (the 'Friendly Robbers') for one bloody minute, and the Traffic Enforcement Mongrels are ZIPLINED down from their tired vulture perches to issue a hefty summons——faster than it takes to coddle two eggs! The rest of these serious, cash cow traffic offenses are left to breezy automation.
But, blight your Third World slum-building in Flushing, litter your front property with filth, and overcrowd your single family house with 25 strangers separated by illegal partitions——and, Voilà: The chaste, invisible citywide inspectors are nowhere to be found! Where is policy enforcement for serious health and hazardous living violations by the Department of Health? Right now, more than half of this dystopian metropolis looks like it should have been condemned, circa 1973!
It's egregiously obvious that City Hall doesn't have the vaguest idea how to govern, much less punish serial violators of zero regard for health and safety.
It's official: There will NEVER be a world class New York City the way that it used to be more than 80 years ago. It's a heaping pile of graft, anarchy, and political disgrace that is ALL crumbling, eroding and decaying like the Sunrise, Florida condominium that recently collapsed in June, without forewarning. Get out of this padded cell and raw sewage plant while you can, people: The worst of the worst has not even BEGUN!
Again we see the local socialists complaining about small business owners and wanting unnecessary regulation on food vendors.
Again we see the local socialists complaining about small business owners and wanting unnecessary regulation on food vendors.
Hahaha Venders?
I was up in the Bronx (Westchester ave)looking for tires & GMC rims and almost crashed looking wile laughing my ass off.
These Mexicans had a complete fold up "Car Wash" plugged into a fire hydrant.
They had Sombreros, a makeshift painted cardboard fold down railroad like gate, overhead sign, buckets, Honda generator and power washer, wax & rags going with around 6 customers lined up. And one of those waiting in line was THE COPS !!!
-Joe
Illegal sidewalk vendors have always been part of NYC and should not be messed with.
And the best stuff was always the unlicensed stuff and quite safe.
Lets See:
1-Fresh hot Star Bakery pretzels in front the church every Sunday (bag of 8 for $2 BTW)
2-The Puerto Ricans pushing the "Halado de CoCo" shaved ice carts.
3-Fresh Roasted Chestnuts.
4-Snow cone man
I don't want no super overpriced corporate crap sanctioned by the dirty mayors office like they have Junkyard Stadium. Yea--2 cheap undercooked skinned hotdogs & two Cokes $18.50. -And that's to sit in a tiny crap seat and watch the Mets lose!!
No thanks !!
To last Anonymous:
Forget to feed the municipal meter (the 'Friendly Robbers') for one bloody minute, and the Traffic Enforcement Mongrels are ZIPLINED down from their tired vulture perches to issue a hefty summons——faster than it takes to coddle two eggs! The rest of these serious, cash cow traffic offenses are left to breezy automation.
But, blight your Third World slum-building in Flushing, litter your front property with filth, and overcrowd your single family house with 25 strangers separated by illegal partitions——and, Voilà: The chaste, invisible citywide inspectors are nowhere to be found! Where is policy enforcement for serious health and hazardous living violations by the Department of Health? Right now, more than half of this dystopian metropolis looks like it should have been condemned, circa 1973!
It's egregiously obvious that City Hall doesn't have the vaguest idea how to govern, much less punish serial violators of zero regard for health and safety.
It's official: There will NEVER be a world class New York City the way that it used to be more than 80 years ago. It's a heaping pile of graft, anarchy, and political disgrace that is ALL crumbling, eroding and decaying like the Sunrise, Florida condominium that recently collapsed in June, without forewarning. Get out of this padded cell and raw sewage plant while you can, people: The worst of the worst has not even BEGUN!
"wanting unnecessary regulation on food vendors."
When you are vomiting and wind up having your stomach pumped at a hospital because of food poison - let's see how you feel about buying and eating from an unlicensed food vendor in the future.
Small business owners have to pay taxes, insurance, and rent every month.
What do the unlicensed vendors have to pay?
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