Happy New Year Here's more proof that the City's claims about needing to eliminate vendors for public safety reasons are 100% bogus. Cabs cause a very large...
NY Post GRIME TAKES NO HOLIDAY IN TIMES SQ. By STEFAN C. FRIEDMAN ... January 2, 2004 -- Just one day into 2004 - and already the city's set a new record for...
The NY Post says the Mayor and Senator Bruno both know that no new vending law is needed: "...Bruno insisted, Mayor Bloomberg told him he could keep the vendor...
[Note: We have gotten word that Intro # 160 will be reproposed to the City Council in January and that the NY State legislature will also meet in early January...
All vendors need to understand the issue here. As the last two paragraphs show, the City officials who passed this direct violation of free speech did not do...
If you've ever had your artwork confiscated and never returned, here's what happens to it. The NYPD sells it at auction inside One Police Plaza each month. We...
[At last the paper of record has published a real defense of vendors and a real explanation of the problem. Note this article exactly follows my explanation in...
Fwd from ARTIST member Sandy DeLuca There's also a documentary film based on this book...... Amazon.com "I've had the luxury--if you can call it the luxury,"...
http://www.gothamgazette.com http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/arts/20040105/1/820 Gotham Gazette 1/5/04 Artists' Fight To Sell On The Sidewalk by Martha...
http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2376922 The Scotsman 1/6/04 By Mark Sage, PA Features, in New York NY PARTIES THROUGH TERRORIST THREAT New York saw...
Last night I watched Donald Trump's The Apprentice, a new NBC reality show. I watched because Donald Trump is one of the main people in NYC behind the War...
NY Times City Section LETTERS Why News Boxes Are News Themselves Published: January 11, 2004 To the Editor: Your article "City Council Ponders Playing Musical...
Daily News 1/11/04 Bright idea! Street signs light the way By PETE DONOHUE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER The signs they are a changin'. The usual drab, rectangular...
http://www.citylaw.org/citylaw/janfeb_03/feature.phtml CityLaw Featured Article Public Space: New Legislation Regulates On-Street Newsracks by Michael S. Gruen...
Atlanta Business Chronicle 1/16/04 http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2004/01/12/story5.html EXCLUSIVE REPORTS Media company looking to clean up ...
Quote from article below: "When you give someone a permit, you have something to take away from them" [And that's the entire purpose of a permit, a license and...
[Note: Bill Brown, a terrific NYC activist, has frequently participated with ARTIST in protests. He's pointed out surveillance cameras on West B'way and in...
LA Times Schools to End Soda Sales L.A. Unified: The soft drinks won't be allowed on campuses starting in 2004. They may be replaced by more healthful...
[Here David Rockefeller's Manhattan Institute brags about how a BID (Grand Central Partnership) completely privatized a public park. This same BID is also a...
We want to explore the possibility of a RICO action against the BIDs concerning their efforts to exterminate the City's street artists and other vendors. These...
Street artists The Parks Committee of the NYC Council has been reformulated. Here's the new member list. They may be re-proposing Intro # 160. Parks &...
"Even Robert Lederman, a painter and an advocate for street peddlers who claims that he was arrested three days in a row during protests in front of Trump...
NOTE: THIS IS IN NEW ORLEANS New Oleans Times Picayune » More From The Times-Picayune Lawsuit blocks vendor lottery Hearing postpones parade-route fights ...
ARTIST and Donald Trump Donald Trump has had a long history of harassing street artists, vets and other vendors. Trump is one of the top people in the Fifth...
[NOTE: JCDecaux is the advertising company the Giuliani administration was favoring for the Street Furniture Initiative. Clear Channel Communications is...
Why are SoHo Alliance director Sean Sweeney and his closest political ally, Councilmember Alan Gerson, against widening SoHo's sidewalks - the very same ...