Sanitation Signs Off on Sandwich Boards
A rash of ticketing by the Sanitation Dept. recently threatened business as usual for a number of restaurants and stores on brownstone Brooklyn’s major commercial thoroughfares. The tickets were for the commonly used A-frame signs (aka sandwich boards) that advertise specials and goods (Unlimited Mimosas With Brunch, $9.95, for example). Beginning in October, Sanitation ticketed…
A rash of ticketing by the Sanitation Dept. recently threatened business as usual for a number of restaurants and stores on brownstone Brooklyn’s major commercial thoroughfares. The tickets were for the commonly used A-frame signs (aka sandwich boards) that advertise specials and goods (Unlimited Mimosas With Brunch, $9.95, for example). Beginning in October, Sanitation ticketed many merchants—including the Community Bookstore, Downtown Atlantic, Biscuit BBQ, and Zaytoons—on Atlantic Avenue, Smith Street, Court Street, 5th Avenue and 7th Avenue for using sandwich boards. The ticketing wave was brought to the attention of Councilmember David Yassky’s office, which met with Sanitation Dept. commish John Dougherty in late December. The result? [Dougherty] agreed it was ridiculous, says Marian Wood, Yassky’s district director. The department released a directive (see copy on jump) that allows businesses to use the signs on commercial streets (with a few exceptions) as long as they don’t impede pedestrian traffic. Dougherty says that businesses that have received tickets should contact his office, which will help get them dismissed. And so brunch advertising will live to see another weekend!
Actually the retro terms and phrases others have given up, are totally cool. If you only know what to say what everybody else is saying NOW right this moment, you’re not cutting edge. Just an imitator.
i bought my place in park slope last year and it sure as hell didn’t cost 3 million.
if that’s the kind of house you need to be happy, clearly you are the one with some issues.
i’m glad to have one less “fab” person out of park slope.
@11:02 If was writing tickets I go out of my way to give you one. There is nothing better than seeing an angry white man loose his mind when he is reminded once again he does not control the world.
No one like for anyone else to make their jobs more of a pain in the ass, so try acting like a human being instead of some angry burnout Park Sloper who thinks the rules don’t apply to them and can’t handle day to day life in the city.
What a douche!
We already owned a $600,000 place in Park Slope, 11:08.
We sold it to buy a house and yes, couldn’t afford $3 million as required in Park Slope. I admit it! Rake me over the coals. But then of course, most the population can’t afford a $3 million house. So it doesn’t make me feel insecure to say we can afford “only” a $1.2 million house. Unlike the degree of insecurity you yourself are exhibiting.
Thanks for proving we made the right choice to leave. We miss the amenitites but not the elitist snobs, that’s for sure.
anyone who says “fab” is not so fab.
In fact, I complimented the “fab amenities” in Park Slope in my post, 10:55.
10:55 here.
plenty of things wrong with park slope.
just not the sandwich boards on 7th avenue.
don’t be jealous you were priced out.
it’s not becoming.
Sweet mother of god, NYC Sanitation sucks. SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSS. Hate those incompetent, venal, small-minded assholes. The worst city agency I’ve ever encountered anywhere.
They will literally spend 15 minutes tearing open our garbage bags looking for contraband, fail to reclose the bags properly, causing litter to fall out of them, and then half the time fail to take them away entirely. The collectors usually walk about 30 feet behind the truck, attempting to hurl the bags all the way from the sidewalk, not caring about the ones that miss or break open.
Guest 10:31, you want me to give these shitheads a cup of coffee, hang out, shoot the shit? Please–when they bother to show up at all, they have no interest in hanging out with the citizens they’re supposed to be serving. The only thing they seem to enjoy doing is writing phony tickets. Maybe if you slipped them a hundred bucks, they might start DOING THEIR DAMNED JOB with some measure of energy and caring.
Fuck you, NYC Dept. of Sanitation. You betray your city every day.
Ah yes, the ubiquitous Park Sloper at 10:55 refusing to admit there is even one single downside to living in Park Slope.
There is a downside to EVERY neighborhood. Every one! Even the very best one in the whole entire world. Jeez. Nobody was saying they hate Park Slope, 10:55. It’s not a personal attack on you. Take your happy pills now.