moving sales-advice
Hi, my husband and I are moving, but have only lived in Brooklyn for a year or so. We want to have a "yard" sale but have no yard. In fact, we live on 5th ave. would we get busted for having a smallish sale on the sidewalk in front of the retail space at the base of the building we live in? The store isn't open on Sundays.
Thanks in advance for your advice!
Thanks in advance for your advice!
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If the store is closed (they would be the major complainers), I think you're fine. As long as you don't block much of the sidewalk. I think it would be AOK. I mean, i don't think the police would ticket you -- but if you were in the way, they might ask you to skedaddle.
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Depending on how much you are hated in the neighborhood, you might want to at least abide by the general provisions for vendors who set up on the street. Just in case someone trips over your Teflon coated electric wok.
§ 20–465 Restrictions on the placement of vehicles, pushcarts and stands; vending in certain areas prohibited. a. No general vendor shall engage in any vending business on any sidewalk unless such sidewalk has at least a twelve-foot wide clear pedestrian path to be measured from the boundary of any private property to any obstructions in or on the sidewalk, or if there are no obstructions, to the curb. In no event shall any pushcart or stand be placed on any part of a sidewalk other than that which abuts the curb.
b. No general vendor shall occupy more than eight linear feet of public space parallel to the curb in the operation of a vending business and, in addition, no general vendor operating any vending business on any sidewalk shall occupy more than three linear feet to be measured from the curb toward the property line.
c. No vending vehicle, pushcart, stand, goods or any other item related to the operation of a vending business shall touch, lean against or be affixed permanently or temporarily to any building or structure including, but not limited to lamp posts, parking meters, mail boxes, traffic signal stanchions, fire hydrants, tree boxes, benches, bus shelters, refuse baskets or traffic barriers
d. All monkeys used in acts for money with or without an unamplified street organ or hand ground, will be fully clothed and vaccinated for rabies.
d. No vending pushcart, stand or goods shall be located against display windows of fixed location businesses, nor shall they be within twenty feet from an entranceway to any building, store, theatre, movie house, sports arena or other place of public assembly.
e. No general vendor shall vend within any bus stop or taxi stand, or within ten feet of any driveway, any subway entrance or exit, or any corner. For purposes of this subdivision, ten feet from any corner shall be measured from a point where the property line on the nearest intersecting block face, when extended, meets the curb.
f. Each general vendor who vends from a pushcart or stand in the roadway shall obey all traffic and parking laws, rules and regulations as now exist or as may be promulgated, but in no case shall a general vendor vend so as to restrict the continued maintenance of a clear passageway for vehicles.
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There is much more:
http://24.97.137.100/nyc/AdCode/entered.htm
Administrative Code, Title 20 consumer Affairs, Chapter 2: Licenses, Sub chapter 27: General Vendors, Section 20-465: Restrictions on the placement of vehicles, pushcart and stands, vending in certain areas prohibited.
I would leave my pushcart home. -
Haha! Thanks for that. We'll leave the monkey upstairs, or else make sure he's fully clothed.
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