Articles about “illegal”
New Airbnb Regulation Won't Impact Occasional Law-Breakers, Lawmaker Says
(Chris Neuman / Flickr) When Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation on Friday instating fines of $1,000 to $7,500 for New Yorkers who advertise their entire apartment on short-term rental websites, Airbnb jumped into action. The international...
NYC Council Member Wants To Make Hoverboards Legal On Sidewalks
(Shutterstock) Earlier this week we revealed that "hoverboards" are illegal in NYC under NY State Law, which declares them to be motor vehicles that cannot be registered. This means you can own a "hoverboard," but you...
A Civil Liberties Lawyer Explains Why "Hoverboards" Are Illegal In NYC
Illegal in NYC. Yesterday we published an article declaring that your "hoverboard" is illegal in NYC. The 26th Precinct of the NYPD tweeted out this fact on Monday, referencing the NYC Admin. Code 19-176.2*. That code,...
LES Community Board Worried About Synthetic Marijuana
A proposal about the classification of synthetic cannabinoids, a.k.a. synthetic marijuana, or "K2," sparked a debate at this week's Community Board 3 Meeting in Lower Manhattan. The Committee for Transportation and Public Safety has proposed a...
Check Out This "Luxury" Manhattan 2BR With 22 Beds
Who doesn't want to come home to 21 other people and industrial strength bunk beds? Are you sick of living in the outer boroughs? Are you tired of having enough floor space to do sit-ups (regardless...
Where To Check Out Illegal Fireworks In NYC
greenelent's flickr Every year, the City's special Fireworks Crackdown Division sniffs out thousands of dollars worth of illegal fireworks and sparklers, because "Roman Candles" and "Grenade Crackers" are instruments of war, not celebration. But despite that,...
Videos: Illegal Fireworks From Across The Outer Boroughs
greenelent's flickr Mayor Bloomberg and his special Fireworks Crackdown Division have been doing their darndest to track down every sparkler peddler in the five boroughs, even if it meant driving down to the sixth borough. They...
Thousands Of NYers Break The Law With Airbnb Rental Listings
Wouldn't you like to stay in this Lower East Side apartment? There's a white tiger there! (AirBNB) Despite high profile reports of $30,000 fines and people getting sued by their buildings, few New Yorkers realize that...
$2 Million Of Illegal Elephant Ivory Seized, Two Ivory Dealers Charged
Via Manhattan DA's office The Manhattan DA's office announced that two ivory dealers have pleaded guilty to trying to sell illegal elephant ivory: "Mukesh Gupta, Johnson Jung-Chien Lu and their companies pleaded guilty to illegal commercialization...
Five Videos Of Illegal Fireworks On The Streets Of NYC
greenelent's flickr As was well documented, this year's official Macy's fireworks display on the Hudson River was pretty disappointing for a lot of people. But not everyone just sat around and expected the fireworks to come...
Huge Stores Still Blasting A.C. Outside While Earth Burns
It's practically summer, which means it's time to fire up the grill, break out the bikinis, and, if you're a big corporate retailer in NYC, blast air conditioning out into the street like the world's your ashtray....
Hipsters Illegally Killed Upstate Deer While Making Hipster Apocalypse Movie
First Winter, directed and written by Benjamin Dickinson One of the features to be shown during this year's Tribeca Film Festival is First Winter, which is also known as the fest's "hipster apocalypse movie" because it...
Will DOT Ever Notice This Illegal Sidewalk Parking?
The sidewalks are the domain of tourists, prospectors and preachy Park Slope moms. There's no room for cabs, and there's certainly no room for car dealerships to let their products idle. But it's not like common...
Did You Know Pinball Was Illegal In NYC For Over 30 Years?
NYC Police Commissioner William O'Brien took a personal interest in pinball prohibition in 1949 It's kind of unbelievable to think about it now, but it's true: America went through a period between 1940s and the 1970s...
Fatal Stamford Fire: Embers Were Removed So Santa Wouldn't Get Hurt
The home was demolished yesterday Today, a private wake is being held for the three little girls and their grandparents, who were killed in a devastating fire at their mother's Stamford, Connecticut home on Christmas Day....
What To Do When Your Roommate "Rescues" A Rooster
via Reddit What would you do if you came home to find a rooster in your kitchen? That's the situation one NYer has currently found himself in—a Reddit user posted about their rooster-rescuing roomie who brought...
Comptroller Liu Starts Refunding Sketchy Donations
Ah, now that the federal authorities are investigating some questionable donations made to his mayoral campaign, NYC Comptroller John Liu has started to return some of those possibly shady funds. A spokesman for Liu told the...
City Facing Potential "Illegal" School Bus Strike Next Week
tom simpson's flickr Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott warned today that the city is facing “strong possibility” of a school bus strike next week, one which Bloomberg says would result in "chaos." Local 1181...
Video: Check Out NoLIta's Abandoned Subway Station
As if we didn't already love urban explorer Steve Duncan (Undercity) enough, here he comes with another sweet video (filmed by Andrew Wonder) showing off a part of New York City we're generally too wussy to...
Obscure Law Makes Aluminum Beer Bottles Illegal
Earth-friendly New Yorkers that drink beer at sporting events out of aluminum bottles are not only likely to yell at someone before the night is over, they also happen to be breaking the law. According to...
Video: Kangaroo On Third Avenue
Kangaroo spotted Okay, we know New Yorkers like exotic animals (Antoine Yates, anyone?), but are we really at the point where we've got kangaroos living in apartments? Because videos of a man with a kangaroo at...
Locals Wage War On "Mafia War" Creators Over Illegal Ads
via East Village Feed Of course the people behind the time-suck games on Facebook are responsible for offline trash as well. Zynga, the developer of Mafia Wars and Farmville, went the illegal route for their latest...
Did the Senate Break the Law By Expelling Monserrate?
The Senate might have overstepped its bounds and broken the law when it voted to expel embattled state Sen. Hiram Monserrate, according to insiders and the disgraced Queens Democrat. After being acquitted on felony charges but...
Federal Courts Rule Against Big Billboard!
According to Councilman Bill de Blasio, the billboard industry is "synonymous with New York," and sure, billboards are always cause for a bit of fun and controversy in this city, whether depicting orgies or co-opting Woody...
Sexy Equinox Ads Leave Greenwich Village
Equinox gym has taken down the illegal and controversial ads that papered its Greenwich Village building. The advertisements—which pictured women and men in various stages of undress—spurred an immediate uproar when they were pasted up a...
Squatter Gets Busted After Heat Complaint
We're guessing that somewhere in the Squatter's Handbook it says something about keeping quiet, not complaining, laying low... that sort of thing. The NY Post reports on one man who found himself a nice $2,500/month Williamsburg...
Cabs Paid Their Way to the Front at JFK
If you hate waiting for a cab at the airport, then imagine how the cab drivers feel, waiting hours at a time in a holding pen before being allowed to pick up passengers at a terminal. Surely there is some way to match up the waiting passenger with the waiting taxi. No? Anyway, the Daily News reports that some drivers were paying their way to the front of the line. All whilst passengers just stood there like suckers, not bribing a soul in their own line.
TLC: Cab Drivers Must Get Off The Phone, Or Else!
jglsongs' Flickr It's already illegal for cab drivers to use cell phones while driving—even hands-free—but that law's even more scoffed at than the city's futile jaywalking prohibition! So now the Taxi and Limousine Commission is taking...
Artist Illegally Hangs Work at Brooklyn Museum
Astonishing. Graffiti artists are still doing the ol' "sneak into a museum and hang unsolicited work" trick. The latest, Mat Benote, fancies himself a "Fine Art Graffiti Artist" and has actually already pulled this stunt at...
Cheap Membership At Illegal Williamsburg Gym
With most of Williamsburg's condos in purgatory at the moment, some are taking advantage of the empty spaces (particularly those gutter punks). Miss Heather informs us of a new gym that's opened up in the ground...