{"id":3038,"date":"2008-01-07T07:10:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T15:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/merciless_jackbooted_greenshirts.html"},"modified":"2008-01-07T07:10:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T15:10:21","slug":"merciless_jackb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/merciless_jackb.html","title":{"rendered":"Merciless Jackbooted Greenshirts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor&#8217;s nanny-statist obsession with healthy food <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/intelligencer\/42622\/\">has gone too far<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>This year, when the Liberty Plaza Greenmarket reopened, near the corner of Cedar and Church Streets, its organic overlords told the local streetfood sellers that they couldn&#8217;t share sidewalk space with arugula peddlers on Tuesday and Thursday from August to December. Then things got ugly: One of the vendors, Bangladeshi immigrant Mohammed Ali, 44, who&#8217;d been selling hot dogs on that stretch of Cedar Street for seven years, refused to move, and a Greenmarket manager called the cops. Ali was ticketed twice, for vending food &#8220;when ordered to move due to a market event&#8221; and not having twelve feet of path around his cart. Then, six officers seized his cart and everything in it. By the time an administrative-law judge dismissed the summonses later that afternoon (the city still insists the vendor was in violation of the twelve-feet rule), Ali&#8217;s Gatorade, Cokes, and hot dogs &#8212; buns, relish, and all &#8212;  were gone. &#8220;I go to police station and I&#8217;m told it&#8217;s garbage,&#8221; he says. &#8220;They probably ate the hot dogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a contest, us versus them,&#8221; says Michael Hurwitz, executive director of the city&#8217;s Greenmarket program. It&#8217;s just about space. Still, he adds, &#8220;I do wish their food was a little bit healthier and was locally grown.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor&#8217;s nanny-statist obsession with healthy food has gone too far: This year, when the Liberty Plaza Greenmarket reopened, near the corner of Cedar and Church Streets, its organic overlords told the local streetfood sellers that they couldn&#8217;t share sidewalk space with arugula peddlers on Tuesday and Thursday from August to December. Then things got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","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=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}