City continues its unflagging ticketing efforts
The city has been ticketing some Dyker Heights merchants fordisplaying curbside banners, and the community isn’t happy aboutit.
Polstein’s Hardware, at 76th Street and 13th Avenue, got itsticket from a Department of Sanitation (DOS) enforcement officer onOctober 13, ostensibly for causing a sidewalk obstruction with itstwo holiday flags – one with a Halloween image and one with awinter theme, with the agent who wrote the violation asserting, Idid observe two tall banners advertising business on the curbobstructing the pedestrian pathway.
However, the banners for which Polstein’s were ticketed (notincluding an American flag, for which the store did not receive aviolation) were flying from poles inserted in holes drilled near acurbside bench – making it unlikely that pedestrians would beimpeded by them as they traversed the more-than-usually-widesidewalk.