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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/nyregion/03gates.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

 

 

New York City’s storefront gates, like its fire escapes and stoops, are there but not quite there: the unnoticed wallpaper of New York at night. They have been battered by vandals and defaced by graffiti taggers. They have secured diamonds, handmade tortellini and other valuable commodities. They have provided the clattering soundtrack of dawn and dusk, the steel canvas of struggling artists, the most compelling evidence that the city does, indeed, sleep.

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And now, on orders of the City Council, roll-down gates have joined the ranks of fatty foods and cigarette smoke: they have been legislated against, some right into extinction.

 

The Council voted on Monday to ban the kind of security gates that completely shield commercial storefront windows and doors from view — ones that resemble old-fashioned auto garage doors, with narrow horizontal slats that rise up like a steely sort of curtain — while permitting the kinds of gates common in suburban shopping malls that allow passers-by to see inside.

 

Along Court Street in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn, a gentrifying commercial and residential strip in what remains an Italian stronghold, the gradual ban on solid gates — there are probably tens of thousands of them — was as well-received as a property tax hike. Not a single owner or manager who was interviewed was aware of the Council’s vote.

 

The head-scratching dismay expressed by Pyung Lim Lee upon learning that City Hall had taken a regulatory interest in the rickety old solid gate outside C.H. Plaza Dry Cleaners, 400 Court Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., 11231, was typical.

 

“If the government pays, then O.K.,” said Mr. Lee, the owner of the shop, who was not surprised to learn that the government would not, after all, be covering the cost of a new gate. “They make law, law, law, and people’s life is more difficult.”

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i thought that too, but most of the store owners rent, and its up to the building landlords to change them, most people who own real-estate in nyc do not own just one building, they own millions of dollars worth of property so this one is on the rich.

Im sure a few mom and poppers might get hit, but that’s the way it goes over here, “don’t fight city hall”

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Those things work good at stopping molotov cocktails, we used to call them riot gates.

I guess NYC is they're confident there will never be a riot here again.

 

Since NYC is now a tourist trap-esque Capitol of the world upper crust city and not the awesome crime infested danger zone of the late 70s/80s I think it's a pretty safe bet that nothing like 77 will ever happen again

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I mean sure, it's an eyesore to some people.

 

But to make shops switch it up on their own dime sucks.

 

 

yup.

 

 

NYS is also in the middle of trying to get all store owners who want to renew their license to carry and sell tobacco, which would normally run $100 per year, to pay a percentage of the entire volume of their business. all sales, not just tobacco. for the most part it's a $1000 min and upwards to around 5K or more.

 

funny that's not in the news.

 

 

as for the gates, the next thing they'll do (NYC) is start fining stores for excessive signage and shit like that. i'm not sure if they are already doing that though.

 

they can write any law they want and then slap the little guys over the head with the bill to not only pay their salary but to pay the fines for the bullshit laws they write.

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