too many bars
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Tired of being kept up until 5 a.m. listening to noisy bar-goers and honking cars? +Feeling surrounded by more and more bars and increasingly unsafe? +Tired of watching local businesses and essential services disappear? A COALITION OF COMMUNITY GROUPS, BLOCK ASSOCIATIONS AND NEIGHBORS INVITES YOU TO ATTEND AN
EAST VILLAGE / LOWER EAST SIDE TOWN HALL MEETING ON BAR PROLIFERATION
DATE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2005 TIME: 6:30 - 8:30 P.M. AT:ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION CENTER 172 NORFOLK STREET btw. Houston & Stanton [F to Delancey; J, M, Z to Essex, walk east and north]
The meeting will include: an educational forum, a panel discussion with local officials, a community speak-out, and mobilization!
ORGANIZERS INCLUDE: E. 4th Street A/B Block Assoc.; E. 6th Street A/B Block Assoc.; E. 6th Street B/C Block Assoc.; 9th Street A-1 Block Assoc.; E. 10th Street A-1 Block Assoc.; 11th Street A/B/C Block Assoc.; Coalition to Save the East Village; Lower East Side Residents Coalition; L.E.S.R.R.D. (Lower East Side Residents for Responsible Development); L.O.C.O. (The Ludlow-Orchard Community Organization); 211 Madison Street Tenants Assoc.; Norfolk Street Block Assoc.; St. Marks Place A-1 Block Assoc.
SPONSORS INCLUDE: EVCC (East Village Community Coalition); GOLES
(Good Old Lower East Side)
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November 1st, 2005 at 10:04 pm
Three years ago the city legislators,led by mayor Bloomberg,passed a law that INTENTIONALLY put thousands of bar patrons on the streets of our city.You could decrease the number of bars by half and would still have a noise problem.As long as the bars are REQUIRED to put bar patrons on the sidewalks there will be noise.It’s not quantum physics.The police can ticket bars for the street noise and the bars will simply put up velvet ropes that force the people outside their bars to stand in front of other buildings and businesses.That is no solution.The police can’t approach a bar and demand that they get their patrons back inside because the bars are not allowed to let them in.
IT IS HIGH TIME THE MAYOR AND THE CITY LEGISLATORS RECOGNIZE THAT THE SMOKING BAN HAS CREATED NEW QUALITY OF LIFE PROBLEMS.Reform the ban and force the bars to install modern,high tech ventilation-filtration systems and get these THOUSANDS of bar patrons off the streets,away from the front of our buildings systems and take their noise and trash back inside the bars where they belong.THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET SOME IMMEDIATE RELIEF FROM THE NOISE. It is time to urge your political representitives and community leaders to hold the mayor accountable for the failures and problems caused by this ban and get him to reform the ban.UNTIL THAT HAPPENS THERE WILL CONTINUE TO BE NOISE ON OUR STREETS UNTIL LATE INTO THE NIGHT AND NO AMOUNT OF TICKETING WILL STOP IT.