Councilmember Simcha Felder is drawing a line in the slush. He says he is drafting legislation that would block New York City from issuing snow-related fines to homeowners until municipal properties are cleared. The move follows a late-February blizzard that buried large stretches of the city and left many crosswalks and approaches to public buildings impassable for hours. Felder is pitching the bill as a basic fairness fix, arguing that homeowners should not be ticketed while city-owned sidewalks are still covered in snow.
What Felder Is Proposing
Under Felder’s proposal, the city would be barred from issuing snow-related summonses until all city-owned properties are cleared and “deemed safe,” a shift he says would curb uneven enforcement. “That’s…..