New York, NY – Records compiled over the summer show an 18.9% upswing in tickets issues to city business from the same period last year, despite Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign promise to back-off and cut the city’s small business owners a break.
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NYPOST.com (http://bit.ly/1CN2jcf) reports that tickets written in July and August alone were up a stunning 53% over last year’s two summer months.
When compared to 2013’s numbers, the FDNY wrote 53% more tickets, while the Buildings Department and Sanitation’s numbers rose 22% and 17% respectively.
The Health Department handed out over 3,400 in July alone, more than in any single month in the last three years.
Dinkins #2
In Texas they’re down 18.9% because we won’t allow CAMERAS.
NYC sucks to live in!! The city just keeps ticketing its inhabitants making working family lives miserable . I HATE IT HERE AND I WISH I CAN LEAVE.
soon you will be charged a fee for breathing in nyc
As a great man once said….its sick and getting sicker……………..