Denton, agreed! Pineapple and pizza are two wonderful things. Together, however, they are disgusting.

Posted by: danko at September 9, 2009 12:23 PM in response to Streetlevel: Provence en Boite Shuttered by DCA

makes*

Posted by: danko at September 9, 2009 12:17 PM in response to New Retail Tenant at The Smith

Carol, are you seriously recommending that people watch "Dog the Bounty Hunter?" Why would you wish such displeasure upon anyone? His haircut make my nose bleed...

Posted by: danko at September 9, 2009 12:16 PM in response to New Retail Tenant at The Smith

I was hoping for a giant blonde brick Fedders box with bars on the windows.

Or the insane Gehry one. Whichever.

Posted by: danko at September 9, 2009 12:07 PM in response to New Barclay's Center Design Revealed

Littlefield is way overpriced. If you are spending more than an absolute maximum of $7 on a beverage, you have too much money and really ought to send some to me instead of giving it away to boring ass bars.

Posted by: danko at September 9, 2009 12:02 PM in response to Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up

Searched up this thread because my friend was served a summons for a beer on the stoop.

I posit that it is, indeed, quite legal to drink on your own stoop.

Let's review the NYCAC 10-125 wording again:

2. Public place. A place to which the public or a substantial group of persons has access including, but not limited to, any highway, street, road, sidewalk, parking area, shopping area, place of amusement, playground, park or beach located within the city except that the definition of a public place shall not include those premises duly licensed for the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises or within their own private property. Such public place shall also include the interior of any stationary motor vehicle which is on any highway, street, road, parking area, shopping area, playground, park or beach located within the city.

Okay. A place = The stoop portion of a private residence
The public = the people as a whole and/or a substantial group of persons
access = permission, liberty, or ability to enter, approach, or pass to and from a place or to approach or communicate with a person or thing b : freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something c : a way or means of access d : the act or an instance of accessing

Let's begin with a semantic argument (or incongruity #1):

Neither the people as a whole nor a substantial group of persons (whatever that means) has "access" to a stoop simultaneously due to the size limitations of said space.

Incongruity #2:

No one except the owner/tenants/authorized guests is allowed on any part of the privately owned real property at any time or for any reason. That is to say that the people as a whole have neither permission nor liberty and thereby no (legal) ability to occupy the space/cross the threshold; a private stoop is a place to which the public does not have access.

This is 100% logically sound, which means that it is probably wrong. To me, the legality seems irrefutable, but pigs are pigs and the city is quite intent on nickel-and-diming its people for every last drop. Regardless, I have consumed several hundred beers on my stoop and will continue to do so. The pigs can eat my shorts, as it were.

Posted by: danko at September 9, 2009 11:14 AM in response to Is Your Stoop Private Property?