Last year, small business Susan Hager was fined after taping an envelope filled with 15 of her business cards to a lamppost on Court Street. Them's the breaks... but the problem here is that she was charged a fine for each card; so instead of facing a $75 fine for the envelope and its contents, she faced closer to a $3,000 fine. The Brooklyn Paper now reports that after her hearing, her fine was knocked down to just $75. This could be seen as a small coup for small business owners facing Bloomberg's quality of life ticketing spree. A pet-groomer, also in Brooklyn, is currently fighting over $8,000 in fines for posters he put up to advertise his shop... which he may now have to close. more ›

A small business owner in Brooklyn Heights took to the streets in April and taped an envelope filled with 15 business cards onto a Court Street lamppost. That is, of course, not legal... but it also doesn't seem quite right that the sanitation worker who fined her wrote out a separate summons for each card in the envelope! Now Susan Hager is fighting the fines, and she told the Brooklyn Paper, “It said I’ll be paying a minimum of $75 for each card, and I could ultimately pay up to $3,000 for the whole deal. I don’t mind paying $75, but $3,000?” more ›