§ 19-136 Obstructions.
AC § 19-136
a. It shall be unlawful for any person to hang or place any goods, wares or merchandise, or suffer, maintain or permit the same to be hung or placed, at a greater distance than three feet in front of his or her house, store or other building and a greater height than five feet above the level of the sidewalk, or to lease or permit any other person to use any space on the sidewalk located adjacent to such house, store or other building for the purpose of selling or displaying any merchandise.
1.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden in front of a house, store or other building facing any street market, except upon a permit from the commissioner of small business services.
2.Wares or merchandise in process of loading, unloading, shipment, or being received from shipment, may be transferred from trucks or other vehicles over the sidewalk by the use of skids, or by backing up trucks on the sidewalks while so doing.
3.Household furniture may be temporarily placed on a sidewalk for the purpose of loading or unloading the same, during daylight and without unreasonable delay; but, in any such case a passageway shall be kept open within the stoopline of the building, abutting on the sidewalk so obstructed, for the free movement of pedestrians.
4.Storekeepers and peddlers may sell and display coniferous trees during the month of December and palm branches, myrtle branches, willow branches, and citron during the months of September and October on a sidewalk; but in any such case the permission of the owner of the premises fronting on such sidewalk shall be first obtained and a passageway shall be kept open on the sidewalk so obstructed for the free movement of pedestrians.
5.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden on Mermaid avenue between West 17th street and West 37th street, of the borough of Brooklyn.
6.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden on all sidewalks less than ten feet in width in the fifth ward of the borough of Queens.
7.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Avenue U between Coney Island avenue and Stuart street in the borough of Brooklyn.
8.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Steinway street between 34th avenue and Astoria boulevard south in the borough of Queens.
9.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on 31st street between 23rd avenue and 21st avenue in the borough of Queens.
10.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Ditmars boulevard between 28th street and Steinway street in the borough of Queens.
11.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on 23rd avenue between 28th street and Steinway street in the borough of Queens.
12.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on 30th avenue between 25th street (Crescent street) and 45th street in the borough of Queens.
13.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on 31st avenue between 25th street (Crescent street) and 45th street in the borough of Queens.
14.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Broadway between 25th street (Crescent street) and 45th street in the borough of Queens.
15.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on 71st avenue between Queens boulevard and Burns street in the borough of Queens.
16.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Austin street between Ascan avenue and Yellowstone boulevard in the borough of Queens.
17.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Queens boulevard between Union turnpike and 63rd drive, in the borough of Queens.
18.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on 63rd drive between 9th street and Alderton street in the borough of Queens.
19.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Myrtle avenue between Wyckoff avenue and Cooper avenue in the borough of Queens.
20.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Fresh Pond road between Myrtle avenue and Metropolitan avenue in the borough of Queens.
21.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Jamaica avenue between 177th street and Queens boulevard in the borough of Queens.
22.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on 165th street between 177th street and Queens boulevard in the borough of Queens.
23.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on New York boulevard between Archer avenue and Jamaica avenue in the borough of Queens.
24.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Farmers boulevard between Liberty avenue and Merrick boulevard in the borough of Queens.
25.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Montague street and the Promenade in the borough of Brooklyn.
26.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Fulton street from Flatbush avenue to Adams street in the borough of Brooklyn.
27.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Manhattan avenue from Greenpoint avenue to Nassau avenue, in the borough of Brooklyn.
28.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Queens Boulevard between 57th Avenue and Grand Avenue in the borough of Queens.
29.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Main street between Northern boulevard and Sanford avenue in the borough of Queens. Such an obstruction is also forbidden on any intersecting street from the building line of any building on such portion of Main street.
30.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Roosevelt avenue between College Point boulevard and Union street in the borough of Queens. Such an obstruction is also forbidden on any intersecting street from the building line of any building on such portion of Roosevelt avenue.
31.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on Kissena boulevard between 41st avenue and Barclay avenue in the borough of Queens. Such an obstruction is also forbidden on any intersecting street from the building line of any building on such portion of Kissena boulevard.
32.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on 40th road between Prince street and Main street in the borough of Queens.
33.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on 41st avenue between Main street and Union Street in the borough of Queens.
34.Such an obstruction is hereby forbidden from the building line on 41st road between Main street and Frame place in the borough of Queens. b. It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, to use any portion of a sidewalk or courtyard, established by law, between the building line and the curb line for the parking, storage, display or sale of motor vehicles. c.
