Illegal A-Frame signs chained ALL WEEKEND on 73rd and 1st Avenue (where Bareburger is).
The gypsies who do it also stand at 73rd and 1st pushing their cards on pedestrians.
Sunday, June 9th. A lovely FIRST AVENUE STREET FESTIVAL.
And who was out illegally pestering people with their con-job "psychic" games? Yes, the WITCHES of EAST 73rd. Two con-artists ready to swindle people with the con game of tarot cards, "psychic" advice and palm reading.
THEY ARE ILLEGALLY HANDING OUT THIS CARD ON CITY PROPERTY:
Here's the gypsy sign brazenly chained to the city sidewalk EVERY DAY at 1368 York Avenue
Same phone number on the 73rd and 1st Avenue sign:
NO OTHER BUSINESS DOES THIS. Why do THEY get away with it?
Mayor De Blasio deserves part of the blame? One officer from the 19th Precinct smiled at that notion. He saw the leaflets being distributed and did nothing.
BOTH gypsies (the orange top and the long red dress) are pestering people.
Why isn't the cop doing anything?
Another policeman was standing at the blue-painted wooden barrier that kept cars from accidentally turning onto 1st Avenue. Here's the conversation that took place between a citizen and that cop, a 6 foot 200 pounder, wearing rainbow-mirrored sunglasses:
What can be done about that illegal sign over there.
What?
That “Psychic Sign” over there. Can you handle this, or is it Sanitation?
Why, is it bothering you?
It’s illegal. It shouldn’t be there, should it? It’s against the law.
Yes, that’s definitely illegal, but we don’t consider it a problem. DeBlasio.
You treat this like jaywalking or littering.
(Smiles) Right. Everybody does it.
Not everybody chains a sign to a city lamppost.
People chain bicycles, all kinds of things. Things like this, and jaywalking, we’re instructed not to enforce. We’d be writing tickets all day. De Blasio…
If Giuliani was still around? (cop smiles) It would be a quality of life offense. (cop smiles). OK. But this isn't jaywalking. Don’t you think people should be protected against psychic swindlers?
Some people believe in it. I think it’s BS myself.
They prey on the elderly, they prey on immigrants. These people should be protected.
Some people believe in it.
It was clear that the cop was NOT going to even give a snide, "If you want to spray paint the sign go ahead, if you want to get clip the chain on the sign I won't do a thing." Because, he WOULD.
Cops have routinely threatened arrest on anyone caught trying to remove an ILLEGAL sign. They gave one citizen a choice: get arrested or get into an ambulance and be taken to a hospital for observation. Do they tell the phony "psychics" to stop putting out signs or face arrest?
Cops and politicians say "don't take the law into your own hands" and then don't enforce the law.
"Some people believe in psychics," the cop said.
"Some people" take heroin so should that be legal?
Here's an article from former police chief Bratton, which underlines why Giuliani's "BROKEN WINDOWS" policy was so important and why it should NOT be ignored now.
BROKEN WINDOWS WORKS
Part of what Bratton wrote: "we knew that serious crime is more likely to occur in a lawless environment — and unaddressed low-level disorder signals lawlessness.
Quality-of-life policing in the transit system worked. From 1990 through 1993, subway crime fell by 35.9%. In the city as a whole, where quality-of-life enforcement was less rigorous, it fell only 17.9%.
Cops had always responded to murders, robberies and assaults. But we gave them responsibility for the disorder, too...graffiti and prostitution....Swaths of the city, including street corners, commercial strips and parks, had been ceded to disorderly and sometimes violent persons. Our neighbors wanted their city back, and the police set about reclaiming public spaces.
The Upper East Side is prime real estate. It shouldn't have gypsy A-frame signs chained up, and gypsies pestering people in the street. The city shouldn't even allow these storefronts, any more than they allow 3-card monte games. Swindling people IS WRONG.
NO BUSINESS should be allowed to chain A-frames to public places and get away with it. The only ones who scofflaw are the gypsy "PSYCHIC" pests. Some finally get the message, including the one on 75th between 1st and York. THIS one is STILL a scofflaw.
The sign currently chained EVERY DAY on York was formerly chained in front of BAREBURGER on 73rd. Here it is, September 10, 2017. It was part of the gypsy "musical chairs" game, of chaining this sign on 1st Avenue one day in front of Bareburger, then moving it across the street the next day, and back again, amassing slaps on the wrist from Sanitation.
Here's a Sanitation Complaint number from December 30, 2016:
The 19th Precinct, Bunco, the NYC tax collectors, everyone could lean on those con artists at 425 E. 73rd and make money with fines.
The cops make a big deal out of showing up for a few minutes at a neighborhood meeting one evening a month to read stats on bicycle thefts or to mention that pickpockets have been observed on a crosstown bus. How about ONE minute for this?
How about two cops in a car driving by on a Sunday, noting these violations on York and 1st, and coming to the gypsy's storefront and saying "TAKE THOSE SIGNS DOWN AND DESTROY THEM IN FRONT OF US. NO MORE."
Politicians have time to take pictures with drag queens reading fairy tales at a public library, or crowing about how they got some minor thing done in a park. They have time to handle this. A law should be passed so that these signs can routinely be confiscated. If the city makes money towing bulky cars away, it can make money by clipping a sign and charging $200 to get it back.
Cops and politicians say "don't take the law into your own hands" and then don't enforce the law.
"Some people believe in psychics," the cop said.
"Some people" take heroin so should that be legal?
Here's an article from former police chief Bratton, which underlines why Giuliani's "BROKEN WINDOWS" policy was so important and why it should NOT be ignored now.
BROKEN WINDOWS WORKS
Part of what Bratton wrote: "we knew that serious crime is more likely to occur in a lawless environment — and unaddressed low-level disorder signals lawlessness.
Quality-of-life policing in the transit system worked. From 1990 through 1993, subway crime fell by 35.9%. In the city as a whole, where quality-of-life enforcement was less rigorous, it fell only 17.9%.
Cops had always responded to murders, robberies and assaults. But we gave them responsibility for the disorder, too...graffiti and prostitution....Swaths of the city, including street corners, commercial strips and parks, had been ceded to disorderly and sometimes violent persons. Our neighbors wanted their city back, and the police set about reclaiming public spaces.
The Upper East Side is prime real estate. It shouldn't have gypsy A-frame signs chained up, and gypsies pestering people in the street. The city shouldn't even allow these storefronts, any more than they allow 3-card monte games. Swindling people IS WRONG.
NO BUSINESS should be allowed to chain A-frames to public places and get away with it. The only ones who scofflaw are the gypsy "PSYCHIC" pests. Some finally get the message, including the one on 75th between 1st and York. THIS one is STILL a scofflaw.
The sign currently chained EVERY DAY on York was formerly chained in front of BAREBURGER on 73rd. Here it is, September 10, 2017. It was part of the gypsy "musical chairs" game, of chaining this sign on 1st Avenue one day in front of Bareburger, then moving it across the street the next day, and back again, amassing slaps on the wrist from Sanitation.
Here's a Sanitation Complaint number from December 30, 2016:
The 19th Precinct, Bunco, the NYC tax collectors, everyone could lean on those con artists at 425 E. 73rd and make money with fines.
The cops make a big deal out of showing up for a few minutes at a neighborhood meeting one evening a month to read stats on bicycle thefts or to mention that pickpockets have been observed on a crosstown bus. How about ONE minute for this?
How about two cops in a car driving by on a Sunday, noting these violations on York and 1st, and coming to the gypsy's storefront and saying "TAKE THOSE SIGNS DOWN AND DESTROY THEM IN FRONT OF US. NO MORE."
Politicians have time to take pictures with drag queens reading fairy tales at a public library, or crowing about how they got some minor thing done in a park. They have time to handle this. A law should be passed so that these signs can routinely be confiscated. If the city makes money towing bulky cars away, it can make money by clipping a sign and charging $200 to get it back.
