Saturday, May 19th, 2007
Since 1926 New York City has had cabaret laws that make it illegal to dance in bars and restaurants without a dance license. There are less than 150 venues with this license in the five boroughs.
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Fusion of Youth
Zuit Suiter
Collage from video.
Dance Parade Protests NYC Cabaret Laws
The protesters want the city to repeal the ban, which the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division upheld in February in a ruling against the Gotham West Coast Swing Club and several other plaintiffs.
New York’s restrictive dance laws have been on the books since 1926, at the height of the Jazz Age, when they were passed in part to stop interracial public dancing while enforcing a Prohibition-era definition of “public lewdness.”
To this day in New York’s five boroughs, it is illegal to get up and move your body to a rhythm in any locale where three or more people congregate and food or drink is served _ unless the business obtains a dance license. – AP
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
I liked the composition but it was too blurry to post without trickery.
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Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
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Sunday, October 16th, 2005
The recent rains washed much trash down the storm drains and raised the level of the East River depositing a tremendous amount of trash on the rocks of the Empire Fulton Ferry Park . The park rangers were crawling around the rocks and pulling it out of the rocks by hand. Ranger “Le Cat” (above left) referred to this as his art work.
SLIDESHOW: Empire Fulton Ferry State Park
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Saturday, October 15th, 2005
Mist on my lens from the never-ending rain, but it makes this paste-up more mysterious than it really was. Meat-packing district, Manhattan.
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Friday, October 14th, 2005
AON paste-up on Prince Street.
Filed under: Art, Photos, Soho, Street Art- , AON, Rain - by gamma
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