Psychics are Frauds. No wonder they are Scofflaws, too.

One of our readers comments: "It's pretty strange that so many of the posts on the blog have to do with psychics!"
No, not strange at all. Psychics are sociopaths.
They are in the business of tricking people and stealing their money.
Too bad the city doesn't insist on a warning sign: "CAUTION: PSYCHIC READINGS ARE ENTERTAINMENT AND NOT REALITY."
Check the Amazing Randi, a magician, who knows all about the tricks these "psychics" use:

There are plenty of websites that de-bunk superstitions, myths, and PSYCHICS. There are plenty of books, too:

Meanwhile on 73rd and 75th and all around the town, "PSYCHICS" arrogantly

chain A-Frame signs and laugh at the fines they might get ONCE in a YEAR. 

Sanitation has privately said, "Somebody should go spray paint the sign, or

clip the lock." Yeah, and then the vigilante either gets beaten up by for it, or

arrested by the cops who smugly sass, "Don't take the law into your own hands." 

ASIM the Old Freakish MATH TUTOR again

Asim just can't help himself.
That's JUST the kind of evil, selfish, corrupt, disgusting OLD MAN you want sidling up next to YOUR CHILD?
Asim with this "let's pretend I'm a school" signs on bus shelters advertising himself as the dean of "MATH POWER TUTORING."
It's just one creepy old bastard who scuttles from his smelly walk-up apartment down the street to stick the signs on the bus shelters on 72nd Street (going up York, going down York).
What will it take to make him stop? Giving him a call, perhaps, instead of Sanitation playing the "we didn't see the sign, somebody must've taken it down" game?
Call him at 212-794-4766. Tell him to STOP sneaking his signs after 4pm on a Friday, and on weekends.
Call him at 646-584-9701.
Better yet, get a surveillance camera to be trained ON the bus shelter, and you'll see exactly what he does, and maybe instead of being the senile scofflaw who ignores a mere $100 sign, he'll be hit with a LOT MORE MONEY for his DELIBERATE acts of civil disobedience, fraud, teaching without a license, and anything else you'd care to check on.

Dec 15 - sociopath PSYCHIC of 73rd Scoffs AGAIN

Told to STOP chaining her sign to 73rd and York lamp-post...
She does it anyway.
And then she plays her game of chaining it to the lamp-post in front of Bareburger on 73rd and 1st, and then across the street at the Finnegan's Wake restaurant across the street.
Thats what you see here:

Games, games, games.
SCOFF, SCOFF, SCOFF
She grins, "You said stop chaining it to 73rd and York. You didn't say anything about 73rd and 1st."
And Sanitation shrugs and says "We can't do anything."
And the 19th Precinct spits, "NOT OUR JOB."

Math Power Tutoring? Perversion? Compulsion? SCOFFLAW

It looks like ugly troll Asim just can't keep his grubby hands to himself. He wants to get underage students at the local school up to his 3rd floor slime lair.

He once again taped a MATH POWER TUTORING pretty pink sign to the bus shelter on the afternoon of December 11th.

He targets the kids and their parents by scuttling around at 3pm to get his sign up, and hope it's seen before outraged citizens pull it down.

It is utterly sickening that the "procedure" here is to report him, and have a moron from Sanitation reply three days later, "We went by and didn't see anything."

It would be a lot easier if a report to the Sanitation website could include a photo, or if the 19th Precinct had a squad car that would deign to pass by, note the sign WAS there, and confirm it to Sanitation so a fine could be written up.

Why is he allowed to keep taping up his sickening pretty pink signs? WHY? He is NOT a teacher licensed in this city. He can't get a job in the city school system.

"Our students have been accepted..." His sign is full of distortions, including "our." He makes it seem like he runs a school and has a staff. It's one sicko in a 3rd floor walk-up.

Worst Scofflaw: WILLIAM THOMPSON

It's bad enough when small-time crooks like a "psychic" or a "$19 mover" play games. But...an ELECTED OFFICIAL?
THREE politicians are SCOFFLAWS:
Bill DeBlasio
John Liu
WILLIAM THOMPSON

They all are willing to take fines as long as they can put illegal signs all around town. And worse, they won't even PAY THE FINES!

The sanitation department most commendably did not turn a blind eye to powerful politicians such as DeBlasio, Liu or Thompson.

But WILLIAM THOMPSON, kicking and screaming, was the last to pay up.

What kind of message does this send about the character of WILLIAM THOMPSON?

PS, politicians should vote to BAN telemarketer calls, period. There is no reason, none, for any politician, religious group, charity group, or anyone else to invade the privacy of someone's home. "Junk mail" is not as intrusive. You can choose when to open your mail box.

$19 Movers - MOVE THEM TO JAIL

One of the blights of New York City are the "$19 Moving" weasels.
Russian Mafia?
Some other obnoxious cartel?

They are well organized, and they hire morons who, carrying a sack with a ream of paper, and a few rolls of tape, routinely hit EVERY lamppost in a neighborhood.

How about: sting operations to hire these creeps, and then confiscate the moving van? Up the penalty specifically on "mover" signs, so that the fines increase $500 per violation, and that the van won't be returned for under $10,000 in cash?
How about: Instantly cutting off phone service to a reported "$19 moving" sign? That would also slow down these criminals.

EVERY DAY: SCOFF, CHEAT, SCOFF

Here she comes...
EVERY DAY afer 3pm, here's the "PSYCHIC" sign illegally chained to a No Parking sign on the corner of 73rd and 1st Avenue, right next to the BAREBURGER RESTAURANT at 1370 1st Avenue:

Sanitation admits that for many months now, THIS SIGN has been ILLEGALLY CHAINED either on 73rd and 1st or on 73rd and York.

When a violation is reported, it should be taken care of quickly. No "we'll send someone in 3-4 days" or "we went by and didn't anything."

When there are repeat violations, the response should be STRONGER, not shoulder shrugs and confusion.

The MOVING Scofflaws who NEVER STOP

Some say it's the Russian mafia
While they haven't blanketed the boroughs as fiercely as they used to, the obnoxious "$19 MOVING" signs continue to turn up all over the place.
People end up with their belongings held for ransom (because the movers now are quoting hidden charges)
People end up with things stolen or missing.
Is it "caveat emptor," or shouldn't the city be protecting people by not allowing these con artists to post the signs?

After Hurricane Sandy, various towing operators began to clear the streets (as well as driveways, where cars were legally parked) charging a fortune. Somehow, that was legal.
It was ok to show up with a truck, chain a car and haul it away without permission, and charge $500 OR $700 or more to the owner. Ask Arnold Diaz about it.

Assemblyman. Senator. How about a law that would allow the phone company to instantly disconnect the number you see on this sign?
How about making sure the fines escalate, doubling and tripling with each report? And that after several reports, a "sting" is made to impound the moving vehicle?
WHY let criminals and scofflaws prosper when the city can use the revenue?
Why is it that the city doesn't expand from parking tickets to tickets for the kind of eyesores, scofflaws, clutter and conjobs seen in the photos on this blog?

Creepy "Richard," The Computer Clutter-Poster

"Richard" lives on 86th Street and 3rd Avenue. So he scuttles around in a ten block radius taping his cards on kiosks, inside any existing phone booths, and anywhere else. Simply going to bodegas and other places that give people a "legal" place to post signs, is NOT enough for HIM.

Nobody else is such an obnoxious sneak. He even has the nerve to post a picture of himself with a big smirk on his face. Our Town, Learning Annex, and the others pay to have kiosks on the street. HE is the parasite who takes advantage.

What a CREEP

It should be a simple matter for someone from Sanitation, or the Doe Fund, to walk by, see these things, and fine RICHARD $100 per item.

It's ridiculous that violations have to be phoned in to 311 or through a website, when someone on patrol can easily pay for his or her own salary by writing up tickets for this kind of violation.

Why should "RICHARD" make profits off this sneaky, illegal activity?

SMIRK SMIRK, SCOFF SCOFF.

"SCOFF SCOFF!" The 73rd Street PSYCHIC WITCH AGAIN!

Yesterday The Witch of 73rd Street had her sleaze sign at the corner of 73rd and 1st. Today, she switched it to York and 73rd

She has a business at 425 East 75th and if Sanitation comes knocking, she refuses to answer.

It's time the witch stops scoffing at Sanitation officials and reps.
It's time neighborhood community boards and the 19th Precinct look into this.

Read about dirt bags like her at the RANDI.ORG:
http://www.randi.org/library/coldreading/

Why should the city let this con artist use PUBLIC PROPERTY ILLEGALLY to con people into being robbed?

Only a SICKO would keep chaining signs up in violation of city law.
SCOFF...SCOFF...SCOFF...

Warned? SHE SCOFFS YET AGAIN! The Witch of 73rd Street

November 9th. While NYC recovers from a hurricane and digs out from a blizzard, THE PSYCHIC, aka THE WITCH OF 73RD STREET had her obnoxious husband chain that sign AGAIN to the corner of 73rd Street:

BUSINESS AS USUAL SCOFF SCOFF SCOFF

She DELIBERATELY makes sure to put the sign up after 4pm and on weekends
Because she knows this is when it's less likely that any government officials will be coming by to see it.

The city can and should be making $100 every time THE WITCH and her slob husband have the sign up.
CUT THE CHAIN
FINE THEM
CONFISCATE THE SIGN
There is no excuse for SCOFFLAWS to DEFY THE LAW.

SCOFF ALL WEEK: Oct 19th 435 East 75th

SCOFF SCOFF.

Today the sign was up from approximately 3:30pm to 9pm.

Having a gigantic sign nailed to the building wall, another sign, two in the window...should be enough.

The "oh, it's someone just trying to make a living" excuse is just that. An excuse. No other business does this, and plenty in this neighborhood make sure to keep their signs legal.

Why an excuse here? Because this person is stubborn? Because it's too much effort to keep up with the sick games he plays, chaining signs to the corner of 1st and 75th, then promising compliance, then putting them up in mid-block, and back and forth?

No more sidewalk obstructions, especially from a chronic scofflaw who has chained signs to the corner of 1st and 75th and put them on the sidewalk day after day and month after month. There are laws against it, and those who believe in Mayor Giuliai's "quality of life" program and in a clean, safe, decent environment, do not want any excuses about it.

SCOFF SCOFF! "PSYCHIC" Owns 75th EVERY DAY

3:30 pm and yes, the arrogant scofflaw has once again put up that "PSYCHIC" sign, moneygrubbing for a $5 palm-reading.

Would an honest tax-paying business owner continually spit in the face of city officials, the 19th Precinct, the Sanitation Department, and be such a scofflaw?
No, just an anti-social contemptible sub-human.

All over town there is a plague of "PSYCHIC" frauds, con-artists and bottom-feeders. This creep's sign points to a basement grotto at
435 East 75th Street:

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435 East 75th was built in 1910. It's a six floor walk-up with crappy 575 square foot one bedroom apartments.
The landlord does not live anywhere near this building It's VALERIE ANAVIM who lives at 100 OLD PALISADE RD , PL #2, FORT LEE ,NJ 07024. Most reputable landlords have real estate agents showing apartments for them. Anavim just has a FOR RENT sign, as you see, and a phone number: 917-301-3030.
Valerie, do you believe in psychics? Do you believe in keeping the sidewalk clean in front of your building? Are you a pig?
Mayor Giuliani was a strong supporter of "quality of life" and believed that the classier the buildings, the less graffiti, the less scofflaw pigs, the better the chance for people to build up a neighborhood and make it prosper.
This scofflaw denigrates the neighborhood, his neighbors, and the human race. His sty should be condemned.

Does This Picture Look Familiar?

The Sanitation Department's handbook on violations, laws and fines, includes a picture of just what a "sidewalk obstruction" is, related to sandwich-board signs.

It looks just like dozens of pictures on this blog, which show what the "PSYCHIC" at 435 East 75th Street and the "PSYCHIC" on 425 East 73rd have deliberately done day after day, month after month, in arrogant defiance of their neighbors and city officials.

Sanitation Department LAWS and FINES

According to the Sanitation Department, fines for Sidewalk Obstruction (such as the scofflaw PSYCHIC bunch love to do) range from $100 to $300.

Scofflaws who chain their signs on busy sidewalk corners, so that people will walk down the street to the actual storefront, and scofflaws who put up signs that have their phone numbers (which easily leads to a store or apartment) can and should have money taken from their bank accounts, or have their property seized. There is NO excuse for the Scofflaw activity from anyone shown in posts on this blog.

SCOFF SCOFF. Who Owns the Public Sidewalk? THE PSYCHIC PIGGY

Oct 17th, and what's new?
Here's the sign again. The PSYCHIC at 435 East 75th owns the sidewalk, it seems.

These signs should be confiscated. Anything else is unacceptable.

This creep is going to chain the sign up as long as he has one. If he doesn't have a sign, the problem is over. IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO DEAL WITH A SOCIOPATH SCOFFLAW.

SCOFFLAW of 75th : IGNORES CITY OFFICIALS

The husband of the "psychic" who operates out of 435 East 75th keeps hauling that sign out onto the sidewalk.
He has refused to answer the door to city officials.
IT'S TIME TO HANDCUFF HIM AND KEEP HIM IN THE TOMBS OVERNIGHT.
IT'S TIME TO TAKE AWAY THAT SIGN. THE ONE THAT BLOCKS THE SIDEWALK.

You don't slap the wrist of somebody this obnoxious. You kick his ASS.
He's got a GIGANTIC ugly sign that practically covers the entire first floor of that rat-trap hovel of a building he inhabits.
Not good enough. He has to chain up more.
Across the street, OSLO, a coffee house, had an illegal sign. Once they were told it was illegal, they took it in, and NEVER PUT IT OUT AGAIN. That's what an honest, caring business does in the neighborhood.
This useless obnoxious SCOFFLAW comes out of his toilet at 4pm every afternoon, and puts the sign up, caring about nobody but himself and the money grubbing bag of dung he's married to.

THEY ARE PIGS.
Confiscate the SIGNS. That's all these sociopaths will understand.

The "PSYCHIC" WITCH OF 73RD SCOFFS & SCOFFS

Yes, the lying "PSYCHIC" Witch of 73rd, is at it again.

October 13, 4pm, and these sneaks have chained the sign up again.
See the car?
If that car was parked a few feet too close to the corner, or it was the wrong day, that car would get a ticket. That car might even be HAULED AWAY. Yes, towed.
Why not haul away a damn SIGN? Can't the city use $100? $200? How about $500 for a repeat offender like this witch?
.
Mayor Giuliani knew that what we see everyday is what matters. We should not see litter. Dog filth. Signs legitimizing a criminal's sociopathic palm reading games.

75th Street SCOFFLAW Disrespects the City

Told repeatedly to stop putting illegal signs on the public sidewalks, what does the "PSYCHIC" of 75th Street do? Yes, keeps right on SCOFFING.
September 8th, after 5pm, and...
ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR signs is not good enough. The illegal FIFTH one has to be put on the sidewalk as well.

Nobody else creates such an eyesore for penny ante $5 "readings" that, as the Racket Squad could tell you, can escalate into con jobs that can take someone's life savings away.

COFFING should not be rewarded

SCOFF SCOFF! "You Warn Me? HA HA. Do Something ABOUT IT!"

It's October so the Halloween Psychic Witch of 73rd Street is really on her broomstick. So is her arrogant husband.

YES, here it is AGAIN.

It's got a CHAIN on it.
"It's MY property. The city can't confiscate MY sign or cut MY chain, because it's MINE."

Logic would say that the 19th Precinct can cut that chain. Transportation can cut that chain. Sanitation can cut that chain.

If you can haul away somebody's CAR, which they might desperately need for work the next day, why not confiscate a damn sign, stick it in the trunk of the police car, and stow it for 30 days with a "$200 fine or we destroy it" notification?

Right now, as a Sanitation official sneered, "Reporting these signs is NOT WORKING." We're all supposed to give up and let stubborn scofflaws win?

"PSYCHIC" OF 75TH - SCOFFS ON THE CORNER

He's been told not to do it.

You can see how much he cares about what the Sanitation Department has to say.

Is his repulsive wife really "PSYCHIC" or is he just a scofflaw?

Or does he think the 19th Precinct will NEVER COOPERATE WITH ANOTHER CITY AGENCY and make him stop CHAINING THE SIGN TO THE POLE ON THE CORNER OF 1ST AND 75th?

The 19th Precinct has plenty of men on patrol on a Sunday.

Surely, so do other city agencies.

Or do we wait for the Mayor and his elected officials to put a few more Sunday people on the Sanitation Dept. payroll, and put some teeth into laws that will stop a moneygrubbing SCOFFLAW?

FACT: the people who disgrace this neighborhood are low-lives involved in the WORST possible activities...from a 79 year-old "Math Tutor" who obviously would not be allowed near any child in any public or private school...to these disgusting "PSYCHICS," the only ones who keep putting up signs and chaining up sandwich boards are people with NO MORALITY.

THEY ARE GREEDY, OBNOXIOUS SOCIOPATHS and they have NO PLACE in this neighborhood.

They should not be ignored, or coddled, or given a break by the 19th Precinct.

This guy knows exactly how to break the law.

He chains up his sign after 5pm on Sunday night

He also makes sure to put extra locks on the chain so that nobody can add an extra lock or extra chain and keep the sign on display Monday morning when Sanitation is most likely to have an official come by. SEE:

Oh yes...if somebody glues the lock, this guy knows what to do...hurry home, come back with a wrench, then UNSCREW the sign and leave the chains and locks dangling.

He doesn't know what he does is illegal?

He sure knows. He's just getting away with it because he can.

Because the Sanitation Dept. could use some help with a deliberate, perpetual, smug, deviant SCOFFLAW and they aren't getting any.

Hello? 19th Precinct? You can't work with another city agency and at least have somebody drive by and witness that the sign is there? Then Sanitation can at least get a summons written. Is that asking too much when it's a scofflaw who is a blight on the neighborhood and a deliberate lawbreaker who laughs, laughs, laughs and SCOFFS, SCOFFS, SCOFFS?

SUNDAY SCOFFING FROM ASIM THE MATH TUTOR

Yes, he's ba-a-a-a-ck.

ASIM K. scored a TRIFECTA on Sunday, some time around 1pm, when he scuttled to the three bus shelters closest to his walk-up lair near the nail salon on 72nd Street, and taped up his pretty-pink (come up to my third floor walk-up, little girl) signs.

79 years old. Told to stop. Supposedly issued a summons. And this is what he does:

The bus shelter at the end of the #31 line, YORK and 72nd Street

ASIM scuttles a few yards away to the DOWNTOWN #31 bus shelter, in front of the Mary Manning Walsh Home, and his dirty work continues.

Then he crawls across the street to the #31 UPTOWN Bus Shelter at 72nd and York to tape up another pretty pink sign for his all-cash come-here-little-girl fetish.

ASIM K. is 79 years old. He is NOT, apparently, welcome to teach ANYWHERE IN THIS CITY. So he puts up signs on bus shelters.

He is the ONLY ONE WHO PUTS SIGNS ON BUS SHELTERS ON THE UPPER EAST SIDE

HE IS THE ONLY ONE DEVIOUS ENOUGH TO DO IT EVERY WEEKEND WHEN HE THINKS NOBODY WILL CATCH HIM.

WHEN THE URGE OVERPOWERS HIM, YES, HE CAN'T HELP HIMSELF, AND HE POSTS ON THE BUS SHELTERS NEAR THE SCHOOL ON 77th AND YORK, USUALLY IN THE LATE AFTERNOON.

SCOFF.

SCOFF.

SCOFF.

19th Precinct to Sanitation Dept: YOU'RE GARBAGE

September 29th, and TWO cars from the 19th Precinct were parked right next to 435 East 75th Street. Right in front of the PSYCHIC sign.

This sign has been reported to Sanitation and the 19th Precinct again. And again. And again.
SCOFF SCOFF SCOFF.

Patrol car 243208 was at the scene. The police were informed. "Would you help out Sanitation, and at least tell this man to take the sign away? Can't you make a note it's there and be the eyes of Sanitation, which is short-handed on a Sunday?"

No. This was followed by a surly demand, "Tell me where, in the penal code, there's a violation."

The 19th Precinct has, in the past month, on a half-dozen phone complaints, offered up all kinds of excuses for NOT helping out the Sanitation Department, ranging from "there's a parade," to "there's a change of shifts," to, believe it or not (believe it, it's been recorded) the suggestion "call 911 about it." Yes, 911, not 311.

HERE'S AN UGLY SIGN YOU CAN'T MISS
The Sanitation Department has one person on patrol on a Saturday...the 19th Precinct has many more. And they were RIGHT THERE. TWO CARS.
NO ACTION.

NO OTHER BUSINESS in this neighborhood puts an ILLEGAL SIGN ON THE SIDEWALK LIKE THIS.
This is a downright disgrace.

TWO PATROL CARS, AND THEY WON'T EVEN TAKE ONE MINUTE TO TALK TO THE "PSYCHIC" AND SAY "YOUR SIGN IS IN VIOLATION OF CITY LAW..."

SCOFF! SCOFF! The 75th Street PSYCHIC Again

What does a sociopath do?
Sneak right back with the illegal activity, as long as nobody is taking away her sign or giving her a meaningful fine.
4pm, a dreary September 28th, with periodic rain.
But here's the sign, back again, taking public sidewalk space illegally. That's what a selfish, obnoxious low-life is all about.
The selfish obnoxious low-life who has this phone number:
212-470-6936
The selfish obnoxious low-life who lives at 435 East 75th.

Which elected official can stop this? Which government agency, which city agency, will take responsibility and effective action?

The city could use the money that this "PSYCHIC" takes, in cash, from people who think she's "legit" because otherwise, she wouldn't have a sign blocking the sidewalk.

Scruffy old ASIM SCOFFS again

It was reported that Asim K. of 72nd Street had received his summons and was going to behave himself.

It didn't take him more than a week or two to return to his compulsion and his scoffing.

School is back in session. And here comes Asim K., out of his spider hole on 72nd Street, and that filthy walk-up apartment he lives in on the South side of the street.

The dirty-looking 79 year-old scuttled over to the bus shelters near the public school, to tape up his "Math Power" tutoring signs in bright, eye-catching pink. The kind an innocent girl might notice with naive delight.

Does he need the money? Probably not. He just wants to get school kids up the three walk-up flights to his lair.

The sign above was taped to the Bus Shelter on 76th street UPTOWN, shelter # MN01161.

He crawled across the street to hit the downtown side, too

Is he scoffing at the fines?

Or is his sociopathic compulsion to get at children just TOO MUCH for him?

It is sick and disturbing that a so-called "teacher," a supposed "educator," engages in willful, illegal and dangerous activities such as this.

He could volunteer his time anywhere. Couldn't he? Or is he so disgusting, such a social leper, and such a vile old man that he can only resort to his stubborn polluting of bus shelter signs in order to get his hands on children?

Sep 13: Which Scofflaw Piggies Stayed Home?

Sociopaths never rest.

ASIM K., the sociopathic "Math Tutor" hit the bus shelters and went over to D'Agostino on 79th and York, and taped up a sign to their clean, freshly painted wall near the produce section.

That's what sociopaths do. Nobody else puts up signs there, but ASIM K., he does as he pleases as often as he pleases. Until he gets a summons or worse.

Across from 73rd, here's an example of an illegal sign that unfairly blocks the sidewalk. The selfish owners of 73 SESSIONS have taken over most of the sidewalk for their preening outdoor Yuppie dining tables. Not enough: they have to put a sandwich board sign RIGHT in the way of anyone trying to navigate the street

As for the "PSYCHIC" and her husband on 75th? Oh, they figure they own the sidewalk. Having ugly signs on their building isn't enough. They sit in chairs and shout at people to get their fortunes told. They chain up ugly A-Frame signs.

But this is the typical lawless "PSYCHIC" who is selfish and obnoxious and only interested in being a moneygrubber.

The city tries to protect people from being taken. It's not "caveat emptor" as far as the FDA is concerned, or the BBB, or other members of alphabet organizations.

 More illegal signs get hoisted for fake psychics, for unlicensed "tutors," for bogus "movers," and fly-by-night "painters" or "computer repair" crooks than anything else. PEOPLE SHOULD BE PROTECTED and the scofflaws FINED.

Scoffing ALL Night Long

York Avenue and 73rd street...and the PSYCHIC who has been warned by city agencies to stop chaining signs...is still chaining signs.
SCOFF. SCOFF. SCOFF.
The sign points toward 435 East 75th. The cops should go over there and tell her to STOP DOING THIS. The sign should be CONFISCATED.

Sunday, all day, SCOFF, SCOFF, SCOFF

Saturday Night SCOFFING

Saturday night, September 8th. It's rainy, but that doesn't prevent the two "PSYCHIC" pests on 73rd and 75th from chaining their signs up, as usual. 73rd Street, for the weasel of 425 East 73rd:

75th Street.
You can't miss it, can you? Neither can pedestrians. It is ILLEGAL to block half the sidewalk with a sandwich board sign like this.

The sign was placed in front of the "psychic"'s basement lair: 435 E 75th Street
Nice, huh? A rainy dark night, and someone with a baby carriage, or a wheelchair goes careening into this thing.

Reporting these signs literally DOZENS of times gets the same limp response: "We didn't see the sign" or "We told 'em to take the sign away and don't do it no more."

A SUMMONS, and Blocking a SCOFFLAW

The latest news on the SCOFFLAWS mentioned below ("PSYCHIC" signs chained to the corners of 1st Avenue on 73rd and 75th, the lunatic "MATH TUTOR" relentessly taping signs to bus shelters).

One of them has been issued a summons by the Sanitation Department.

Another has received a second (and hopefully LAST) warning phone call from a city official.

And since there actually IS at least one person on duty on a weekend from the Sanitation Department, anyone truly "psychic" might determine that it's time to stop the weasel games before there's a POP

Here's a way that Bareburger has foiled the Witch of 73rd Street:

It's hard to put up an illegal sandwich board sign when Bareburger's delivery bike is chained to the No Parking pole instead.

MONKEY SEE, MONKEY SCOFF

Yes, SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 2nd was a busy day for the SCOFFERS.
In just a three block radius, 72nd to 75th, THREE PERPETUAL SCOFFLAWS were back at it
SCOFF SCOFF SCOFF

Oh, here's a novelty, the 435 East 75th Street monkey-bitch is offering "pet readings."

Sunday is SCOFFLAW DAY since Sanitation doesn't even pretend to send anyone around.
How about the cops?
Oh, they insist this ain't their job.
Yesterday, the problem at the 19th Precinct was that the Dominican Day parade was taking away a lot of patrol cars. It was hoped maybe an officer could spare a moment toward evening.
Today? 4pm? With both the 73rd Street and 75th Street "psychics" chaining these sandwich board signs up? "A new shift started..." but, again, perhaps an officer could observe. But forcibly removing the signs? "That's Sanitation..." only Sanitation claims it's the 19th Precinct. Ping pong. SCOFF SCOFF.