GET YOUR LOCKS OFF! City’S Love-Lock Crackdown More Pun Than Punishment
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The third people who would not ordinarily read our 40,290 women and 440 bout would go on to become a fourth and fifth newspaper stop, pick it up, read it, and then men will died from breast can- before she left us last Thursday, concluding turn to their families and friends and ask if cer before the year’sy end, estimates her 20-year “dance with cancer.” they have been screened, or offer to go with the American Cancer Society. Holly called it that because she floated them for this life-saving examination. • One in eight AmericanAmeric women will be di- across the floor, living her life, enjoying Jennifer Goodstein agnosed with the diseadisease in her lifetime. every moment, and touching everyone with President, Community News Group GET YOUR LOCKS OFF! City’s love-lock crackdown more pun than punishment By Ruth Brown Brooklyn Paper This is a bit fishy! City and police brass claim they’re cracking down on the scourge of tour- ists who secure so-called love locks and other pieces of junk to the Brook- lyn Bridge by installing signs along the span saying “No locks, yes lox” — complete with images of a crossed-out latch and a gleaming smoked-salmon- stuffed bagel — and warning that there is a $100 fine for the infraction. But the Police Department isn’t ac- tually adding any extra patrolmen to the bridge, and the handful who are there aren’t looking to hand out tick- Community News Group / Ruth Brown ets, according to the cop in charge (Above) One of the pun-y signs — they’ll just try to lock-block love- meant to stop tourists from leav- birds before they can seal the deal ing the Brooklyn Bridge looking Geoffrey Croft / NYC Park Advocates and hope the pun-y placards deter like (right) this lamppost. the rest. Community News Group / Ruth Brown “The point of this is education so tourists and individuals do not place ing unabated since around 2009 , and in heartbreak, officials said — a lock- tors of major New York guidebooks Fork it over locks on the bridge — we’re not look- workers have snipped off 35,000 of laden lamppost broke off the pedestrian to discourage their readers from leav- Call it parks and wreck-reation — some vandals used a Bobcat ing to issue summonses to individuals the seals since 2013, according to of- path and plummeted to the roadway ing a lasting symbol of their amore on forklift to flip a Parks Enforcement Patrol car in Brooklyn Bridge ficials — although people are now below last month, mercifully missing and collect the $100 fine, we’d much the bridge — but Chan says he thinks Park in the early-morning hours of Oct. 8. Several scofflaws also tying on decidedly less roman- any Brooklyn-bound cars. prefer they follow the sign,” said Trans- “99.99 percent” of people who see a broke into a maintenance yard near Pier 2 at around 3:30 am portation Bureau Chief Thomas Chan, tic items including earphones, socks, In addition to placing 16 of the warn- sign or experience a police officer’s and fired up park utility vehicles, including the forklift, which who helped launch the new signs last and tissues. ing signs along the walkway and in- they used to hoist and dump the electric automobile onto its Friday. “If it looks like they’re going to In all that time, police have not issued structing New York’s Finest to spring stern words will fall into line. roof, according to a parks spokeswoman. The bad turn was place a lock, we’re going to tell them a single summons for leaving a lock or into action whenever they see a tourist But local cops say they aren’t just caught on the park’s security cameras, and management have that they cannot place that particular other junk on the bridge, Chan said. threatening to latch on, Department of scolding sweethearts — they recently handed footage over to the police, the spokeswoman said. item on the bridge.” But the city is now taking a more Transportation honcho Polly Trotten- stamped out an illicit lock-selling en- The padlock plague has been grow- offensive approach before it all ends berg says she recently asked the edi- See LOCKS on page 11 This Week’s Special Edition Newspaper in Recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is Sponsored by 2 AWP Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 October 14–20, 2016 COME TO A FREE MEDICARE SEMINAR NEAR YOU! 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