Closing Bell: Fighting Unwanted Fliers
Now the long arm of the law is backing up the handwritten “no menus” sign found in so many residential buildings. The Sun reports that the City Council has passed the Lawn Litter Law, banning businesses from leaving fliers in front of homes with signs like this: “Do not place unsolicited advertising materials on this…
Now the long arm of the law is backing up the handwritten “no menus” sign found in so many residential buildings. The Sun reports that the City Council has passed the Lawn Litter Law, banning businesses from leaving fliers in front of homes with signs like this: “Do not place unsolicited advertising materials on this property.” Homeowners and landlords can file a complaint with the Department of Sanitation if paper-crazed advertisers don’t comply.
New Law Allows Residents to Fight Unwanted Fliers [NY Sun]
WOW Nokilissa I didn’t know we shared such similar pet peeves!!! I secretly hope that a lot of those bike messengers actually get hit as they go through the intersections against the light, and; some rainy day one of them is going to receive my umbrella in their spokes as they cut across the crosswalk
I’ve never understood this beef.
Disclaimer: through the years, I’ve found several decent delivery places through menu fliers left in my lobby or under my door.
I always figured that if you don’t like it, pick them up and plunk them into your recycling bin. Voila, problem gone. I also, to some degree, admire the pluck and drive of these small restaurant owners who pay for the menus and either single-handedly take them around, or hire someone to do it for them. It’s a living, if not a particularly easy one.
We have MUCH more pressing things to grit our teeth and clench our fists about… like people who stand two wide on escalators, or don’t stand to the right (especially the damned subway ones); or bike delivery people tearing down sidewalks or barreling down the street going the wrong way while ignoring all traffic laws, including the compelling ones; or people who snort up an enormous loogey and spit it on the sidewalk right in front of you (hope no one’s just eaten); or cigarette smokers who don’t pay the least bit of attention to the burning ember at the end of their stick as they walk along, thereby making us watch out for THEM in order to avoid being burned; or drivers who zoom past everyone in line for an exit and nose their way into the front, thereby making everyone else wait longer; even worse, the idiot drivers who let them do it….
Enough. Deep breath. Keeping. Calm.
It has been working for me in GH to some extent, 95% Less flyers/menus to clean up. So, it is well worth it, the paper mess was getting out of control.
Take out flyers are not the problem here, at least they are placed under or near the door, its whom ever delivers the circulars in the plastic bags, they are a nuisance and are just strewn everywhere.
as a tenant, damn right i ain’t picking up the menus strewn in front of my front door; that’s one of the many things i [over]pay my landlord to do. and before anyone else jumps at it, no i’m NOT a bitter renter. I love love love my building, menus n all.
There is no good Chinese take out in Bed Stuy. I found one run by Cantonese and got my hopes up. They should be ashamed of themselves it was so bad.
I have been able to discover a lot of good takeout from menus that I received so I don’t mind them.
I think this issue says more about lazy tenants who walk by stoops and foyers strewn with menus and don’t care enough to pick them up.
My landlord, who lives upstairs, put a sign on the front gate and it’s working on my block in PS. Problem is, I actually used to check some of the flyers. Now I have to steal them off someone else’s stoop.