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Killjoy mayor turns New York into the forbidden Apple Paul Harris in New York Sunday January 11, 2004 The Observer The barmaid leaned over the counter, folded a beer mat into a crude ashtray, then stubbed her cigarette out in it. 'We call that a Mike Bloomberg,' she said with venom, referring to New York's tough-talking mayor. In this city where public smoking is banned, she was breaking the law - just one of many stringent regulations which critics claim are stifling the life of 'the city that never sleeps'. New York was once the place where anything goes, but...