{"id":1051,"date":"2006-05-08T09:39:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T17:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/first_they_came_for_the_yobbo_bars_and_i_did_not_speak_out_because_i_was_not_a_yobbo.html"},"modified":"2006-05-08T09:39:23","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T17:39:23","slug":"first_they_came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/first_they_came.html","title":{"rendered":"First They Came For The Yobbo Bars And I Did Not Speak Out Because I Was Not A Yobbo"},"content":{"rendered":"

State legislators are considering tightening up liquor laws that forbid bars within 500 feet of each other by removing the exemption option, worrying the tourism board<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The head of the city’s tourism bureau, joined by advocates from the nightlife industry, yesterday urged state lawmakers to resist amending liquor-licensing laws to make it tougher for city establishments to get them.<\/p>\n

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) held a hearing in response to the over-saturation of bars in certain neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

One proposal before lawmakers is removing the exemption that allows bars to open within 500 feet of each other.<\/p>\n

Opponents said that, if passed, the Big Apple couldn’t have Restaurant Row, the Time Warner Center or other places where there’s a concentration of eateries and bars.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, the Times puts this into perspective<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Introduced last month by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the bill would amend the state’s liquor laws and eliminate exemptions to the so-called 500-foot rule, which prohibits more than three licensed establishments from operating within 500 feet of one another. In certain quarters of New York City — among them Restaurant Row, vast stretches of the Upper East Side and the meat-packing district — dozens of bars, lounges and restaurants serving alcohol can be found vying for business along a single block. The average crosstown block in Manhattan, for example, is about 260 feet long.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

State legislators are considering tightening up liquor laws that forbid bars within 500 feet of each other by removing the exemption option, worrying the tourism board: The head of the city’s tourism bureau, joined by advocates from the nightlife industry, yesterday urged state lawmakers to resist amending liquor-licensing laws to make it tougher for city […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blatant_localism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}