Brownstoner reports that A-frame signs are allowable in Park Slope again. You know, those signs that restaurants and shops use to display specials, sales, and other information.

I know a lot of businesses in Park Slope were bemoaning the fact that they were getting multiple tickets for their sidewalk A-frames from the Sanitation Department. In fact, this issue came up quite a bit at the Buy in Brooklyn (Yellow Umbrellas) meeting last November. This will be good news for many shops! The following is a quote from the Gothamist’s  story.

Brooklyn bars and restaurants rejoice: you can once again put your sandwich board signs on the sidewalk without fear of tickets from the Department of Sanitation! Your free and effective method for seducing customers with daily specials and clever jokes about drinking the pain away is now perfectly legal. Of course, this does not give you permission to lose all restraint and play music or let people dance.

Last fall a crackdown on the signs led to such establishments as Park Slope’s excellent Community Bookstore and Brooklyn Heights’ delicious Zaytoons getting slapped with tickets from the Department of Sanitation, who was acting on a rarely enforced law intended to keep the sidewalks clear. Brownstoner reports that Councilmember David Yassky leaned on Sanitation commissioner John Dougherty a few weeks ago and, lo and behold, Dougherty “agreed it was ridiculous.

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