1. Street fair vendors do NOT ADD ON SALES TAX TO ANY PURCHASE
2. They cost the city $$$ in police and sanitation
3. Cops cannot tell you where the detoured buses are running….and THERE ARE NO SIGNS AT BUS STOPS, unnecessarily inconveniencing residents.
4. LOCAL people, taxpayers, moved up here for a purpose — if we wanted street fairs we’d live in Chinatown, or….
5. LOCAL shop keepers who DO PAY TAXES LOSE $$$.
They’ll be back in early spring. Get them off Broadway. Spread the “joy.” Send them to Columbus Avenue … the outer boroughs! Fairgoers can discover the delights of the Bronx, Staten Island, Queens and Brooklyn!
Aarne Ingber
West End Avenue
