People like you make me sick. Trying to make a living. Trying to feed your family. Why couldn't you just go on unemployment like the rest of the non-essential workers and collect a government check? Like i said, you make me sick.
Posted on 04/26/2020 2:48:12 PM PDT by Bruiser 10
One defiant NYC business owner — who’s been deemed “non-essential” during the pandemic — has a message to New York: “I’m opening my doors come hell or high water.”
Eliot Rabin, whose Upper East Side boutique, Peter Elliot, is known for high-end men’s and boys apparel, refuses to follow a state order closing retail business not considered essential. He insists that his $85 pocket squares and $15,000 suits are part of the fabric of New York City: “Why is a liquor store essential and I’m not?” Rabin told The Post.
He admitted that many of the customers who can afford his wares have fled the city for vacation homes, but he’s here to provide “emotional essential support” for the ones still in town. The retailer is also offering them what he jokingly calls “internal vaccinations: Chivas Regal, Kentucky bourbon — have a nip and you’ll feel better.”
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Yes! Talking to a family member in NYC today and I asked him if there was much resistance to the insane orders of DeBlasio and Cuomo, and he said there was very little because people had been made hysterical by the press. So I’m hoping if a few high-end people begin to fight back, maybe it will encourage other folks.
Dear mayor and guv:
When you’ve lost the garment worker and retailing industry...
Honestly, I think this is the way it is going to end. These power mad tyrants don’t want yield. Once this defiance turns into a flood of businesses, the control governors could have exerted to guide the return to normal will be gone.
The revolution is coming. Tyranny is unAmerican. Don’t Tread on Me is increasing. (But I think I’ll wait for the January sale on those $15,000 Suits, ha!!)
This tailor comes from the era when men’s tailors were called
Haberdashers. That’s not a phrase you hear very often anymore. Until the 1980’s most men wore hats or at least owned a few dress hats.
Will he be tailoring High Water pants?
There’s a valid argument to be made on whether stay-at-home and business-shuttering orders are even constitutional
Especially if the “threat” is overblown/overhyped
Would be interesting to see it challenged in court!
People like you make me sick. Trying to make a living. Trying to feed your family. Why couldn't you just go on unemployment like the rest of the non-essential workers and collect a government check? Like i said, you make me sick.
LOL....perfect!
Being the shop owner he couldn’t go on unemployment,
It's striking how much our dress code changed in such a short time. My own father's idea of "casual" was dress slacks and button down (dress) shirt. In the workplace, it was a full business suit with vest and yes, usually a dress hat. In his era, no grown man would be caught in public with dungarees, sneakers and t-shirt.
Similarly, the women all wore dresses and skirts. All the time. A woman with "pants" was somewhat scandalous.
When JFK did his 1961 inauguration without a top hat, that was when everything started changing. The Beatles accelerated that further but even in the early days of the The Beatles (and Rolling Stones), they were outfitted in suits.
“Ladies and gentlemen: the story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.”
“We were working the day watch out of Lakewood. Playground patrol. The usual. Booking young mothers caught pushing their kids on the swings.”
I live in the NYC suburbs, and in the past week, I am seeing more people on jogging paths, cycling, going to the driving range, and more vehicles on the road. We are getting really effing tired of our neighborhood businesses not being allowed to open, and the damn asshat mayor of NYC telling people to report others who are not wearing masks or social distancing. My company will not open until mid-May at least. We are tired. We are stressed. And there is no one I know who does not know someone who has contracted COVID-19 or died from it.
Many on FR hate New Yorkers. But many of us are just like the rest of the country. We are just the silent majority.
“Just then, a poodle piddled on my pant leg.”
“You’ll never take me a live, copper!” said the little queer, who was maskless. My partner and I wrestled him to the ground and cuffed him. When we looked up, the park was deserted. The poodle was dead, having been crushed in the struggle.
The story you have just heart was true. The names were changed because it was downright embarrassing.
The maskless poodle walker was booked for some damned thing or other. Obstruction of justice, I think. He committed suicide in lockup, heartbroken over the death of his ‘best friend’.
And, now that idiotic Mayor has appointed his own wife to head up his COVID racial diversity task force.
Will these NYCers EVER wake up?
Might help to read the story for yourself.
From the article “We’ve applied for every loan, every break … to no avail. We got bubkes,” said the 78-year-old Army vet..”
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