This news item on TV also talked about proposed new vendor regulations. The Times Sq Alliance is heavily focused on getting rid of street artists and vendors. ...
How desperate is the Parks Department to destroy free speech? Now they want a permit to get a petition signed. The Villager Volume 74, Number 55 | May 25 - 31...
A rare event. A positive vendor story in the Times. Useful for fighting Intro # 621. NY Times Elmhurst For an Enterprising Bookseller, It's Sidewalk, to Store,...
NY Times Parks Dept. Settles U.S. Suit Alleging Bias in Promotions By JULIA PRESTON Published: June 9, 2005 The New York Parks and Recreation Department agreed...
Hearing Thursday June 16 Committee(s) on: Parks & Recreation Time: 1:00 PM Location: Council Chambers - City Hall Chairperson(s): Helen D. Foster Details: ...
... NY1 Jun 10, 2005 On NY1 Now: News All Morn Weather: Partly Cloudy & Muggy, High 85 Politics City Council Trying To Clear Way For Illegal Immigrants To...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/10/nyregion/10suit.html? NY Times June 10, 2005 Police Charged Panhandlers Under Unconstitutional Law By JIM DWYER Correction...
ALL PART OF CREATING AN ATMOSPHERE FOR NEW VENDING RESTRICTIONS............ Daily News lead editorial Sunday 6/19/05 Shop till you're dropped Time was when the...
Village Voice For Sale: City Sidewalks A billion-dollar city deal looms, and the French are leading the pack by Tom Robbins June 28th, 2005 Street furniture:...
Here¹s a perfect example of what happens when artists let themselves be pimped out by the government. These so-called cultural institutions, which by the way...
NOTE: "expressive matter vendor" refers to artists and written matter vendors. -RL FWD from the DVVAC, a yellow license disabled veteran vendors group...
Below are comments about and a link to an important Second Circuit decision that affects artists, craftspeople etc. There are implications for those who create...
For those who follow the Parks Department follies this will be a meaningful article........ NY Times ... July 6, 2005 Parks Even the Parks Dept. Won't Claim By...
[NOTE: for years ARTIST has advised protestors to never take an ACD because the records would not really be sealed. Earlier this year the NY Times exposed that...
The Villager Volume 75, Number 7 | July 6 - 12, 2005 Soap seller drained by worries of vendor cleanup By Cathy Jedruczek Who¹s to say soap can¹t be art?...
NY Sun July 12, 2005 Edition > Section: New York City Opens Street Vending to Illegal Immigrants BY DANIELA GERSON - Staff Reporter of the Sun July 12, 2005 ...
As numerous members of ARTIST have commented, the passage of this new law making illegal immigrants able to legally vend in NYC is highly suspicious....
NY Times Dropping $2.5 Million, and Name, Into Fountain By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS Published: July 14, 2005 The usually bone-dry concrete heart of Washington Square...
Fred Cerullo, now head of all the BIDs, was Giuliani's first Commissioner of Consumer Affairs. 7/15/2005 GCP PRESIDENT/CEO FRED CERULLO RECEIVES BID LEADERSHIP...
Cop shot & blacks targeted http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/323938p-276763c.html On the morning of June 14, a Queens scooter cop was shot in the leg with...
Giuliani and FEMA had a huge terror exercise drill planned in Manhattan for September 12th 2001. According to Giuliani the Pier 92 command was 3 times bigger...
What could be more emblematic of our times than a Freedom Tower that censors out any art critical of the government as "un-American." What's really ...
Some thoughts...... Yesterday the NYPD announced ³random² searches of subway, train and bus commuters bags, backpacks etc in response to the latest London...
The Problem with Random Searches by Robert Lederman ³The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable...
[note section 4B] A proposed new law before the NYC Council Int. No. 684 By Council Member Lopez A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of...
Here¹s what the NY Times reports that authorities found in their exploratory effort to use so-called random searches to eliminate fourth amendment rights in ...
Get ready for Intro #621 part II in September............. http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/immigrants/20050801/11/1496 Gotham Gazette Street Vending...
Lately the Times has had a number of sympathetic vendor articles, most about illegal vendors. It's the same paper that has published numerous articles in the...
You¹d think with all the terror alerts they¹d have something better to do. NY Post 8/7/05 August 7, 2005 -- The NYPD is pushing the pedalers out of Times...