In the photo above you can't see the fire hydrant and the truck is very long...because of the car parked at the beginning of the corner there is no room and no way this truck can pull up any where near this small business that has to compete with Whole Foods.I believe my photos demonstrate "business" as usual because there was no possible way this truck could unload based on the situation. I even went up to the officer and questioned him on the unfair ticketing pointing out it was impossible for the truck to unload and park anywhere because of the way a car and truck were parked but he just laughed almost embarrassed and walked away.
I have three photos to illustrate this but is it worth all the work to illustrate what NYer's see every day and many are the victim of.
There is so much to photograph and talk about that I can't keep up.
There is a big rally coming up and will I be able to make it...I just don't know.
Note: I did get the photos up this morning. Yesterday, I asked the ticket agent, based on the car parked at the beginning of the corner and the truck double parked, the fire hydrant etc., please tell me where this truck could have parked to unload and he could not answer my question.
What is sickening is city council man Miguel Martinez and aides to Kendall Stewart and Larry Seabrook all pleaded guilty to stealing tax payer money. They helped themselves and in my opinion they are not the only ones...many are guilty but they have been able to walk is my theory along with "pork" more tax payer money being allotted to developers many with bad track records and in return developers gave the council members campaign contributions that appear as if they are kickbacks or commission as reported in two scathing articles in The NY Daily News by Benjamin Lesser. In one very long piece it ends with a paragraph on Christine Quinn
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/07/12/2009-07-12_some_city_politicians_received_big_campaign_donations_and_tried_to_aid_developer.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/05/31/2009-05-31_city_council.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/06/01/2009-06-01_city_council_members_get_contributions_from_nonprofits_they_funded.html#ixzz0QN6X3lI7
And as comedian Bob Thompson pointed out in one of his rants...tax payers also had to pay 3 million dollars to Poland Spring for city workers who can't drink NYC tap water and isn't all that plastic bad for the environment.
We have to be ticketed relentlessly to raise money because of city official supposedly representing the people are stealing money and or spending wastefully and the ticketed targets small businesses, middle class and low income....another way the people are pushed out of the city.
Flashback: The USPS blocking the fire hydrant 24/7 and making it impossible for Utrecht paint to load and unload ditto for customers and the postal workers mocking me when I pointed out they were breaking the law and endangering our fire fighters and community....ha ha let the NYPD ticket and tow us. The USPS using their federal status to break the law and endanger our community from their reckless air sale to NYU over St. Ann's where they never notified the State of NY as legally obligated...thanks to my hard work the USPS appears to have stopped breaking the law outside my home of 20 years thanks to a new manager but try having a small business in NYC next to a post office or just about anywhere -- it is not easy. Ditto if you have a car which I don't and need to pull up to put purchased items in it...Mike Bloomberg has made it harder than ever and why to raise money because we don't have ethically people and good management including wasteful spending and two laws -- one for the people and one for those above the law.
