Yesterday, the City Council voted, unanimously, to finally pass a bill that a Brooklyn pol has been advocating for a while now and end the Sanitation Department’s 25-year ritual shaming of motorists who don’t comply with alternatie side parking rules by way of a hard to remove neon sticker. Drivers can still be fined for not moving their vehicles, but the extra helping of public humiliation will no longer be served along with that penalty.
On Tuesday evening, the City Council voted, 48-1, to go-ahead with a lawsuit against Mayor Bloomberg and company over a new policy that would require the homeless to prove their homelessness before gaining admission into a shelter. Read more »
In the rare event that New Yorkers elect another out of touch billionaire who often flies his private jet out of town and refuses to tell anyone where he’s going, Councilman Peter Vallone is proposing a bill that would require mayors to inform the City Clerk when they travel 250 miles outside of the city limits. That would mean no more hush-hush trips to Bermuda, a destination about 770 miles away and a place Bloomberg frequents, but hates to talk about.
Now that all of NYC’s major problems have been addressed and solved, the Health Department is urging the City Council to outlaw TOTALLY LEGAL malt beverages like Smirnoff Ice, Barcadi Breezer, and other flavored, alcohol-infused products that are commonly referred to as “alcopop.” I’d love to write this off as political bluster, but they were able to ban Four Loko with little resistance and have made cigarettes virtually illegal, while also setting their sights on sugary drinks and salt. C’mon people, there has to be more ways to baby-proof adult society. What other widely available items should be prohibited?
After the City Council once again ignored voters and approved renaming the Queensboro Bridge in honor of still living former mayor Ed Koch, the current mayor Mike Bloomberg followed suit. Read more »
That’s the day New York City’s character dies and the outdoor smoking ban takes effect. Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg signed the bill passed by the City Council that essentially makes it illegal for smokers to light up anywhere but their apartments and sidewalks. The Parks Department will enforce the law as the NYPD is way too busy detaining over 600,000 people a year to be bothered… for now.
We’ve never been fans of Peter Vallone Jr., but will admit that he’s spot on about plans to rename the Queensboro Bridge after Ed Koch. “This is part of the history of Queens the same way the Brooklyn Bridge is the history of Brooklyn,” said the name recognition councilman. It’s also stupid, costs money, and will never catch on. Plus, people should be buried before things get named after them. The City Council is expected to vote on the measure shortly.
Normally, if a lone Republican councilman was ranting about a piece of bike legislation I’d mostly ignore him, but with the vitriolic stream of anti-cycling dialogue currently being fueled by the media over the past year or so, you may want to pay attention to Eric Ulrich’s proposed bike tagging bill. Read more »
Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Queens) wants to tax bicyclists, essentially, by making them pay a fee in exchange for an ID tag to place on their bikes. The tags will somehow improve safety by stopping “rogue cyclists” from riding all crazy-like in their Spandex outfits, scaring the Olds. Accountability, see. Read more »
Unlike our City Council, Los Angeles’ actually rules on meaningful shit like drafting more sensible rules for medical weed dispensaries that will allow at least a 140 of them to reopen.
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