Each year the city’s street activity office issues permits to more than 200 street fairs and 5,000 other events.
New York City is planning to reject applications for new street festivals in an effort to cut down on NYPD overtime.A moratorium on permits for new street festivals was in place last year. Caps on the number of street fairs were also imposed during Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration due to the cost of NYPD overtime.
“The administration claims to be in support of business and commerce, and for many small businesses, this is a boon for them,” Jackson Chabot, director of advocacy and organizing at the nonprofit group Open Plans, told Gothamist. “Especially for small business improvement districts and how much money they make to support their budget annually.”
Chabot said street fairs are essential neighborhood activities. “When there's a moratorium on this, it demonstrates that this is not a city priority,” he said.that concerns about the number of street fairs across the city dated back to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, when complaints mounted about the number of multiday street festivals and block closures., a report card for city government. That was over $200 million more than what the city had originally budgeted for police overtime.
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