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Hey, this is a familiar story. Guy drinks beer on stoop. Guy gets ticket. And this guy goes to court. The Daily News reports that Prospect Heights resident Kimber VanRy will be in Brooklyn Criminal Court next month to contest the $25 ticket for sipping a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale on the un-gated stoop of his Sterling Street condo. “VanRy said that as one of the cops played a video game on a cell phone, the other wrote him a $25 summons for drinking on the stoop &#8212 and allegedly told him not to worry because the ticket would likely be dismissed.” He pleaded not guilty to the ticket and got it reduced to $15, but it ain’t about the money. Drinking in public is illegal, as we know, but most folks don’t think a stoop fits the city’s definition of “public” as a place where “public or a substantial group of persons has access, including, but not limited to ‘a sidewalk or a street.'” Is this an issue the council should take up?
Prospect Heights Man Cited For Drinking Beer on Stoop [NY Daily News]
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  1. Yeah, that’s what we need, push the local government to create some kind of new initiative which would be not a priority for the PD, in the mist of major budget cuts and much bigger issues.

    Brownstoner BK would not be the focus of a stoop drinking law anyhow.

    Simpler to just not do something you know you’re not supposed to do, and push the gov for bigger things.

  2. i cant walk naked in public, i cant piss in public, i cant drink in public, why the f*** can i smoke in public – it only enriches southern tobacco farmers and tobacco lobbyists.

  3. I don’t know. Just living in New York, breathing this air, drinking this water, riding the subway, eating the dirty water dogs. That’s got to take years off our lives as well. As long as they’re not bothering you, let smokers be. Next you’ll be limiting trans-fats or something… ;p

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