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    Vendors lose museum sidewalk claim

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image Credit: Google Maps

    Street vendors congregated on sidewalk in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Five disabled veterans regularly operated their sidewalk vending businesses outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. City Parks Enforcement Patrol officers, between 2011 and 2013, issued the vendors 298 summonses for “failure to comply with orders to relocate their vending carts.” The officers claimed that the vendors set up their carts approximately twenty feet from the curb when the State statute limits the vendors to three feet from the curb. The officers claimed that the vendors refused to move back to the curb. (read more…)

    Tags : CityLaw, Museums, sidewalk vendors, vendors
    Date:10/03/2020
    Category : CityLaw
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    Understanding the Roosevelt Sculpture at the Museum of Natural History

    Ross Sandler

    Ross Sandler, Center for New York City Law Director

    The American Museum of Natural History gave the City a contemporary lesson in common sense in the manner that it has handled objections to the Roosevelt Memorial sculpture. The museum created a teaching moment in the best tradition of its educational mission. (read more…)

    Tags : American Museum of Natural History, CityLaw, Museums, Roosevelt Sculpture, Theodore Roosevelt
    Date:11/01/2019
    Category : Commentary
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