I want to start an artistic revolution! Save us from NEW YORK!?

Question

I want to start a grassroots movement to save the arts in New York.Especially at risk are live musicians , with the new sound rulings no one can play safely without the chance of the owner getting shut down and fined.I am not talking about Thrash bands, I am talking about 1 guitarist! Also at risk are dancers.They are beginning to fine the owners by a 1926 law that prohibits DANCING! New York is my hometown.I was born here. It is becoming so PC and personally and for the sake of artist's everywhere-how can I organize this movement?

I repeat, I am NOT talking about crazy,rowdy,insane behaviour.I am talking about MY bar -where 1 guitarist got me fined.Truly I am NOT making this up.

Answer 1

Let's not forget the painters. Since real estate prices went through the roof in Manhattan during the 1980s, the nuclei of painting community were was split a million different ways. Today there are some pockets of painters in Greenpoint Brooklyn, Long Island City, Queens, and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but nothing like it was during the 1950s. High rent and real estate prices have done irreplaceable damage to the New York art scene. That goes for music, dancing, theater, poetry, and on, and on, and on. Today, Manhattan is home to successful artist with a tiny pocket here and there of the avant garde. There are already a few small organizations in Alphabet City in the East Village, walk around the neighborhood around Avenue B and 2nd Street and ask. Neighbor today is now safe and well protected.

Answer 2

HOLD IT... HOLD IT... hold on to your scrotum for a minute!

You are NOT giving us all the facts. First, how about the EXCESSIVE noise that spills out to the surrounding buildings and homes, where people may want to sleep?

How about the harmful effect to the body of such ridiculously high decibels ruining the cilia inside your ears causing deafness? How about the noise and rowdiness that spills out into the streets and surrounding neighborhood, people leaving condoms on other people's private property, broken car windows, lewdness in public, beer cans or bottles left strewn all over the streets, people puking on cars and private property... how about THAT?

How about the fire ordinances that are not being followed...? We do NOT want another club going down in flames where parents must to go and sift through a few hundred bodies to locate and identify the badly charred remains of their children...!

Listen, be adult and own up to all the facts, OK? The older generation doesn't mind kids getting together and having fun... but, sometimes these clubs abuse the rights of the people living in the surrounding neighborhood... and that AIN'T even getting into the drug issues, OK?

One thing is to have a well organized club that adheres to laws and ordinances and another is just a free-for-all, don't YOU agree? Hey, we all agree that you have rights, booby, but those rights end exactly where the rights of others begin, and THAT is a matter that not many youths wish to respect!

EDITED: CALL the Ombudsman (woman), who is your Public Advocate in finding solutions between private citizens and government agencies, and make an appointment to speak with someone; take all your documents with you. Also, speak with the City Councilman. Speak with your elected offiicals (don't know who they are? Call the League of Women Voters and they will gladly tell you how to get a booklet with all of their names, addresses and telehone numbers). Good luck.