They promise to boost business, increase foot traffic, promote your business. What they actually do is block access to your storefronts during the festivals, they invite outside vendors, place loud & obstructing equipment that drives away your customers, and they go into your pockets. Just ask around the neighborhood. Many have complained since the festival, several merchants LOST business. Outside vendors made lots of money. Can you really afford another $150 / $200 per month for supplemental services we do not need? A BID is TAX It NEVER goes away It ALWAYS increases VOTE NO
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3rd ave Bank Branch Closing
DIME bank on 76st and 3rd ave will be closing their branch in January. This leaves another store for rent and PROVES our point – big corporations and their employees should NEVER support a tax on property owners. Banks can close branches at will and NEVER pay for a BID TAX. Signature and Northfield bank and their employees will NEVER pay for a BID TAX – WE WILL! These corporations should VOTE NO to a BID TAX that they will never pay for. Their employees should IMMEDIATELY STEP down from the BID steering committee since they will NEVER pay out of their pockets. FACTS not feelings my friends! VOTE NO…
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3rd ave Festival Successful?
I walked the festival yesterday, paid my $14 for a sausage and pepper hero, ate Zeppoli, listened to music and chatted with friends. Was a nice day and it was fun. BUT was it successful? Lets define successful for a street fair and how it relates to a BID TAX. To claim success is NOT to take pictures of people eating or the people walking the streets. Successful needs to be how many of our fellow merchants PARTICIPATED and benefited from this fair. Was it worth their yearly dues? Did they make the money back? A BID stands for Business Improvement – hence did the fair IMPROVE our local businesses.…
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BIDS Serve Narrow Interests
BIDs “serve the narrow interests of some groups within the BID at the expense of all the rest” BIDs do offer power, they do not offer equal power to all interests.
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Business Improvement Districts Ruin Neighborhoods
To pave paradise and put up a retail parking lot, try founding one. By Max Rivlin-Nadler February 19, 2016Read full article in The new republic The PROOF is in the FACTS – BIDS are TAXES – BIDS CAN NEVER BE REMOVED – BIDS DONT WORK AS YOU ARE TOLD! If the BID model continues to proliferate, the commons that make a city great could be completely at the disposal of a single class, one that’s inherently opposed to discourse and organizing. Is this NOT what the 3rd ave BID is doing? And while cities like New York, Raleigh, San Francisco, and Phoenix are all in a rush to expand these…
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The CRAP continues
67th and 3rd off Senator street. Our city is descending into a medieval place! A HOMELESS person CRAPPED on a residents car – they called police, police did NOTHING! Thank you elected officials – its time to stop the madness – vote them all out of office Will a BID TAX remove this? NO!!!!!!!!!
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The BID Budget – no details!
The 3rd ave BID – follow the money. Their budget shows $45,600 for ADVOCACY. Does that mean we will be paying off our politicians? NOW we know why “they” ARE for the BID They need to prove to us – the people paying for this – hence We need a detailed budget with contracts, vendors and exactly what this will be spent on – we have been asking – if they want out tax money forever – we deserve to know exactly where our money will go. Always follow the money – $155,000 for salaries! $150,000 for trash removal – are you kidding us! A BID IS A TAX –…
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A BID cannot rent our stores
Article on PATCH.com – many vacant store fronts in park slope and 5th & 7th – the point is that a BID cannot do anything to help rent those empty stores – they are an expensive powerless entities – A TAX THAT NEVER GOES AWAY AND PRODUCES NOTHING! Ask the HARD questions – how will a BID rent our stores? We want facts not feelings and maybes – show us the numbers of ANY BID that can rent a store for us – we keep our side walks clean, we advertise – WITHOUT A BID TAX! Let the restaurants pay for the festivals! VOTE NO for the 3rd ave BID…
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Will a BID fix the homeless tent city – NO
67th and 3rd
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Raising the bottle and can tax!
Another TAX increase! Another TAX increase! Even the bottles we drink from! Whats next – the air – that seerms all thats left! A nun from Spain who founded a Brooklyn nonprofit that collects recyclable bottles and cans is leading the charge to get the state to raise the deposit on the items, which has been a nickel since 1982. This is ANOTHER TAX that allows our government to collect millions in unclaimed bottle deposits. Keeping people in bottle poverty. Who Pays? We do! STOP ANY NEW TAXES – STOP THE 3rd AVE BID TAX!
