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"Those positions don't come too often," Espinal said.
The council may require builders to use bird-safe glass and/or window coatings in new construction projects.
Maybe all single-use cutlery should simply consist of compostable sporks.
On Friday, the Department of Buildings ordered Bushwick's Clean City Laundry & Dry Cleaners to paint over the illegal park spots in front of its storefront.
On Tuesday, the City Council is set to repeal the reviled Cabaret Law, which has made dancing illegal in the vast majority of the city's bar and restaurants for nearly a century.
"It's going to be even better in a place as cool as New York City," the mayor said, as a few dozen costumed guests, and one large peacock, filed into an adjacent room for a bordello-themed poetry night.
De Blasio supports ending a widely-hated law against dancing in bars and nightclubs, but he wants more security cameras to document all your funky moves.
"They started enforcing the Cabaret Law in Williamsburg right around the time they rezoned the whole waterfront to be condos," one venue owner said.