This Monday, the City Council heard the pros and cons of a legislative package to combat a problem that all New Yorkers are accustomed to: excessive noise.
Another goal is to regulate the issuance of fines to establishments, which until now can be imposed not by inspectors, but by city residents like Dietmar Detering, from Queens, who receive between 20 and 50% of the fines paid. by the establishments.
“Too many businesses have been abused by a small group of private ‘bounty hunters’ whose only interest is their own,” said the executive director of the NYC Hospitality Alliance, an alliance that represents more than 20,000 restaurants, bars and other businesses in the hospitality industry. hospitality in the five boroughs.
Some small business owners agree, like Victor Lee, manager of El Malecón restaurant:
“It’s hurting the neighborhood itself, because there’s no benefit in doing that.”
“That is an abuse, because they believe that the business in which it is sold has the money to be able to pay for it, that is not the case,” adds Luli Alberto, a supermarket employee.
But environmental groups say more inspectors are needed than the 60 employed by the Department of Environmental Protection for 8.5 million residents and hundreds of thousands of businesses.
“If businesses are complaining that they are not receiving notifications about violations, the answer is clear: DEP can notify them immediately,” said Hayden Brocket of the organization NYC Quiet.
The violations that small business owners complain about are independent of those generated by calls made to 3-1-1.
2023-10-17 04:07:00
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