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Boy reported for operating hot dog stand gets help from city
MINNEAPOLIS — A 13-year-old entrepreneur who was reported for operating a hot dog stand outside his house without a license is now getting help from the Minnesota Department of Health....
Calling the cops on kid entrepreneurs
It ain’t easy being a kidpreneur. Or at least not nearly as easy as it should be. Entrepreneurial youngsters across the country have been starting their own businesses selling water,...
NYC's film industry is moving away from Manhattan
The city’s $8.7 billion film industry is in the middle of a scene change. Manhattan no longer accounts for more than half of all film permits -- with the majority...
Ex-prosecutor to go on trial for alleged gun bribery scheme
A former Brooklyn prosecutor is set to go on trial Monday in a guns-for-bribes case that has shaken up the way the NYPD doles out gun permits. John Chambers, a...
New York City's handicapped permit process needs fixing
Dear John: I read the letter from J.W. on April 8 regarding handicapped parking permits. I have scoliosis and severe problems walking and was approved for a handicapped parking permit...
US labor secretary calls out wacky NYC dog-sitting rule
New York City’s nutty requirement that dog sitters get licenses has caught the attention of US Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, who singled it out Thursday as an example of local...
Cracking down on fake parking placards barely dents the problem
Mayor de Blasio’s highly touted crackdown on parking-placard abuse has yielded its first results: the indictment of 30 people for using, and one for selling, fake ones. End of problem?...
Here's one more reason to be afraid of de Blasio 2.0
To the many reasons why New Yorkers should fear giving Mayor Bill de Blasio a second term, add this one: congestion pricing. After Gov. Andrew Cuomo summarily declared it an...
Bill would give religious sects special treatment for gun permits
Those cute Amish buggies may soon be packing heat. A bill introduced by state Sen. Catharine Young, an upstate Republican, would exempt the Amish, Mennonites and other religious sects from...
Obama vet cheers Trump's assault on the red-tape Blob
Obscured by the tumult surrounding President Trump’s horrendous response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., the White House managed to take a significant positive step this week: issuing an executive...
De Blasio to spend taxpayers' money to fix parking mess he created
Mayor Bill de Blasio is going to shell out taxpayers’ money to fix a problem he made worse in the first place — with the city hiring 100 new parking...
De Blasio grants thousands of parking permits to DOE workers
Time for some more parking problems in the Big Apple. In an election-year gift, the de Blasio administration is issuing up to 50,000 more car placards to city education workers —...
Apple's iconic glass cube at NYC flagship store is coming down
The iconic glass cube at Apple’s Fifth Avenue flagship store is coming down — at least temporarily. New York City issued a permit on April 12 for work described as...
Illegal street vendor sues partner over exploitative pricing scheme
A street-vendor wannabe illegally rented a food cart and then balked when its owner put the squeeze on him by more than doubling the fee. So he sued her —...
DA blasts bill allowing conceal carry in all 50 states
Gun owners with conceal-carry permits from anywhere in the US would be allowed to tote their pistols around the Big Apple as if it were the Wild West under a...
Bill could help New Yorkers bypass city's strict gun laws
New York City has the toughest gun laws in the country — but if the proposed conceal carry legislation passes through Congress and is signed by the president, Big Apple...
NYC shut down a Chick-fil-A and people lost their minds
The Health Department shut down one of the Chick-fil-A's in Midtown on Wednesday due to a permitting issue — and hungry New Yorkers were devastated. "What the f--k?!," fumed a...
How New York City can win the food cart war
The City Council has advanced a bill to more than double the number of food vendors in New York from the current 3,100. That’s good, at least in theory: More...
NYPD hunting sketchy gun permits connected to corruption probe
The NYPD has revoked the gun carry permits of more than two dozen people who got them through a shady middleman indicted for bribing NYPD cops working in the department's...
Gregory Meeks has no city permit for his Queens mansion
Rep. Gregory Meeks has been living in his 6,000-square-foot Queens mansion for nearly a decade — without city authorization. He never got a required certificate of occupancy for the custom-built...