FW: Surveillance Prompts a Suit: Police v. Police[Note: The NYPD unit that does this surveillance is called T.A.R.U. (Television and Radio Unit). Contrary to...
[Not passed as yet, this is the first new proposed restriction on vending for 2006. There will be many, many more. Once a street is restricted to food AND...
Don't you know it, just as I'm getting ready to start playing guitar on the street while selling my art they start a crackdown on musicians.......If only they...
Note: The vending law for disabled veterans directly affects street artists, that¹s why I¹m sending it to you. Once a disabled vet sets up on a street that...
... ARTIST needs a place to hold meetings in Manhattan To prepare our response to new vending restrictions. If you have such a place or know of one, let me...
Vet Vending disaster, vets lose lawsuit SEE ruling below my comments Another NYC vending law disaster, the second in a month. NOTE: I¹ve highlighted certain...
More Park privatization The Villager Volume 75, Number 39 |February 15 -21 2006 Board 5 O.K.¹s Union Square plan, including the restaurant By Albert Amateau ...
[Charlie was one of the nicest street artists I ever met. If you admired his work he¹d just give it to you. He kept a very low street profile, taking up ...
Here is the latest batch of proposed new vending laws from the City Council. If you think these sound reasonable, you don¹t understand how government works....
You¹ll recall I sent you a new law about sound from Chicago a few weeks ago. Now NY dutifully follows suit, getting us one step closer to eliminating free...
NY TIMES: NYPD Memo describes targeting leaders of protests as a tactic. If you followed the 1998 lawsuit Lederman et al v Giuliani (settled by the City in...
The prototypes for more than 4,000 sidewalk ad kiosks pretending to be "bus shelters" and "pay toilets" have arrived.... For the full story on Street Furniture...
HEARING Mon April 10 Committee(s) on: Parks & Recreation Time: 10:00 AM Location: Hearing Room - 250 Broadway, 14th Floor Chairperson(s): Helen D. Foster ...
Here¹s the latest nonsensical example of illegal enforcement via ECB summonses issued for illegal vending ...as applied to bicyclists! Also consider if these...
... DCA promotes hundreds of new SIDEWALK CAFS I like sidewalk cafes. That said, heres one for the evidence file....while the City claims vendors, disabled...
WHERE CAN I FIND THE VENDING LAWS? A number of listmembers wrote to ask where they could find the actual law concerning vending stands and fire hydrants and...
[PLEASE PRINT THIS OUT FOR OTHER STREET ARTISTS AND ART VENDORS WHO ARE NOT ON OUR LIST] There are more new additions to the vending law materials on the...
[Yes, I am in it.] NY Times Giuliani Documentary Seeks to Get Beyond Heroic 9/11 Image By PATRICK HEALY Published: April 12, 2006 Fairly or not, it was a...
The Essential 21st century Promotional Tool for Artists, Craftspeople, Jewelers and Designers Ask anyone who sells high quality art, crafts or jewelry. Before...
Washington Sq Park Update.... Those artists who sell in NYC Parks should pay attention to this developing issue. What the City does in one Park and gets away...
Schools may ban hurtful T-shirt slogans ...REUTERS [Whatever happened to free speech in the past four years? Hurtful speech, controversial speech, unpopular...
Between the lines.... Here's an article from today's issue of Crains about wealthy donors to the arts. It's a puff piece on how wonderful the wealthy art...
An interesting lawsuit [see news articles below]. By making simple possession of a marker or can of paint a crime, the City of NY takes art repression to a...
ARTIST UPDATE 5/1/06 This past weekend the police told a number of artists in SoHo that they could no longer set up along a large strip of the west side of ...
Newsday NY Judge blocks part of graffiti law aimed at young people By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press Writer May 1, 2006, 5:40 PM EDT NEW YORK -- A federal...
Giuliani's dream of collecting the DNA of everyone arrested for the slightest violation of law is about to become a reality in NY State.... NY Times May 4,...
Giulianitime starts Friday, May 12 Director Kevin Keating In Person Fri & Sat, May 12 & 13 at 7:20pm and Sun, May 14 at 4:40pm (schedule permitting) Landmark...