{"id":2022,"date":"2007-01-17T10:43:19","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T18:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/and_if_the_lawsuit_is_successful_and_the_damage_award_holds_theyll_obviously_be_garnishing_their_wages.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:29:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T19:29:16","slug":"and_theyll_prob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/and_theyll_prob.html","title":{"rendered":"And If The Lawsuit Is Successful And The Damage Award Holds They&#8217;ll Obviously Be Garnishing Their Wages . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What dumb luck that the news about their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/46814\">$1 million lawsuit against homeless people loitering in front of their business<\/a> comes out on the coldest day of the winter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A high-end antique dealer on the Upper East Side is suing four unnamed homeless people for $1 million on the grounds that they&#8217;ve driven away customers by loitering on the sidewalk in &#8220;old, warn, and unsanitary clothing and cardboard boxes and old blankets which they convert into sleeping accommodations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to money, Karl Kemp &#038; Associates Antiques, located near 69th Street at 833 Madison Ave. near Gucci, Chanel, and Prada, is asking a Manhattan Supreme Court judge to force the homeless defendants to stay at least 100 feet away from the store, according to legal papers filed yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>For more than two years, the papers allege, the homeless have spent &#8220;significant amounts of time&#8221; obstructing Karl Kemp&#8217;s storefront window display, &#8220;consuming alcoholic beverages from open bottles, performing various bodily functions such as urinating or spitting on the sidewalk, and . . . verbally harassing or intimidating . . . prospective customers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What dumb luck that the news about their $1 million lawsuit against homeless people loitering in front of their business comes out on the coldest day of the winter: A high-end antique dealer on the Upper East Side is suing four unnamed homeless people for $1 million on the grounds that they&#8217;ve driven away customers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,53,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war","category-jerk_move","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","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=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}