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Photograph of open store doors from the NRDC
The City Council voted by an overwhelming margin to pass the bill requiring chain stores to shut their doors when their air conditioners are running, leaving many small business unhappy. Cookie Falack, the owner of six Cookie's clothing stores called it "anti-business" and claimed that when they closed their doors earlier this summer, business went down almost 25 percent. But Mayor Bloomberg is expected to sign the green initiative, saying "We are trying to take some reasonable measure to reduce energy consumption at a time when the systems are most strained."
Tips on how to efficiently manage your A/C.
Photograph of the midtown Kenneth Cole store's open doors--even the inner vestibule doors--from the NRDC
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This is definitely a good start.
Though it is too bad restaurants weren't added to bill, since they certainly do their fair share of air conditioning sidewalks across the city.
its a given that any store front, business or restaurant will have it's AC on @ full blast during the summer months. its about time they stop that. agree with joshing, should have included restaurants as well.
If they stand to lose 25% then why don't the stores imitate the restaurants by putting racks of clothes out on the street?
Are Americans really so lazy that 25% of people won't go into a store because the door isn't already open?
What right does the city, state or Federal government have to tell a business or an individual at a private residence they can't have a door or window open? I'm baffled by this. Any restaurant or bar that has French windows will need to keep them shut too.
There are more important matters to be concerned within the City!
Probably the same right that they have to tell businesses they cannot allow smoking indoors.
This really is asinine. Stop creating a nanny state. If it wasn't good for business, believe me, the businesses wouldn't be doing it.
Cookie is absolutely right. Intrusive, over reaching policies like this are "anti-business."
The "anti-business" crap was cried before the no-smoking ban took effect, yet restaurants have been flourishing.
"anti-business" = the last refuge of a scoundrel
@interlard
Are Americans really so lazy that 25% of people won't go into a store because the door isn't already open?
You're not from around here are you? You apparently haven't seen the influx of obese Americans who take up the whole sidewalk when they do walk.
Good policy. West Elm is the biggest perpetrator..always leaving their two doors open.
You so-called Libertarians are a bunch of navel gazing babies. If Americans didn't behave like such selfish and destructive children, they wouldn't need a nanny. Unfortunately for all of us, they do. To further your stupid nanny metaphor: the way Americans have behaved for the last half century, they also need to be told to shut up and go to their rooms with a smack in the face and no dinner.
You rang?
Wait, Bloomberg is anti-business? I'm confused.