A headline in today's edition of The New York Daily News proclaimed "No need to fix smoking tix - none have been written!"
"Spotting smokers breaking a controversial cigarette ban was as easy as striking a match yesterday. Finding cops enforcing it? Not so much," began an article by Kerry Burke, Erin Einhorn and John Lauinger.
The new law bans smoking in city parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas and violators face $50 fines.
The article said that Parks Department officers hadn't written a single ticket as of 5 PM yesterday. "Enforcing the ban puts the Parks Department in a tough spot because it has less than 200 enforcement officers. The law prohibits the NYPD from issuing the tickets - a provision that some lawmakers demanded so that the ban would not be used to justify cops stopping and frisking people," the article said.
Mayor Bloomberg said that public sentiment spurred passage o the law and will also help to enforce it, the article said, adding that he noted that the public was "vociferous" in its effort to get the City council to support the measure.
"Spotting smokers breaking a controversial cigarette ban was as easy as striking a match yesterday. Finding cops enforcing it? Not so much," began an article by Kerry Burke, Erin Einhorn and John Lauinger.
The new law bans smoking in city parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas and violators face $50 fines.
The article said that Parks Department officers hadn't written a single ticket as of 5 PM yesterday. "Enforcing the ban puts the Parks Department in a tough spot because it has less than 200 enforcement officers. The law prohibits the NYPD from issuing the tickets - a provision that some lawmakers demanded so that the ban would not be used to justify cops stopping and frisking people," the article said.
Mayor Bloomberg said that public sentiment spurred passage o the law and will also help to enforce it, the article said, adding that he noted that the public was "vociferous" in its effort to get the City council to support the measure.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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