[Caipirabob]

All some clown is going to have to do to look like a genius and bring the city into an economic "golden age" is walk into office and undo everything that Bloomjerk has inflicted during his time in office upon the people of NYC.

[tdadams]

It looks like eventually, bars will be allowed to have smokers, and will be allowed to be open after 1 am. Great! But this is exactly how things used to be, only now you'll have to come on your knees before the state regulatory boards and pray they see fit to issue you a waiver.

Sounds like this was a dream of big government types... raise state revenue through the issuance of permits and waivers, and gain more regulatory concessions from the bar and restaurants.

How could the bar and restaurant owners have possibly thought letting the state clamp even more regulations on them would be a good thing? Hope they're happy.

[KS Flyover]

[SheLion]

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