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On the last eposide of No Posting Anything of Anykind on Anything.

and now…Part 2

Alan Maisel wants to clean your streets.

He and residents of Marine Park, Mill Basin and Bergen Beach have been been taking down flyers, and hundreds of them.

The flyers, which often advertise home services like carpet cleaning or child care, are being removed through an initiative between Maisel’s office and the Millennium Development Corporation in Mill Basin.

There’s just one problem with the legislation – it passed with a loophole.

“The city was not required to enforce it,” Maisel explained.

He said the Assembly hopes to pass another bill in January that will require the city to enforce the law and give a $250 fine to violators.

“We’ve got to get the law to say that the Department of Sanitation has to enforce this,” Maisel said.
The state assemblyman is leading an effort to remove flyers and advertisements stapled to utility poles throughout

“All those signs are illegal and it’s what I call visual pollution,” Maisel said at a Marine Park Civic Association meeting.

So far, he explained, “We’ve taken down hundreds of them and we’ll take down all of them.”

Maisel is also trying to stop flyers from ending up on residents’ lawns.

The Assembly has passed legislation allowing homeowners to put signs on their front porch or lawn to deter solicitors from placing flyers and restaurant menus on their property.

The signs, which would be homemade, could read, “Do not place unsolicited advertising materials on this property.”

Marine Park Civic President Greg Borruso offered his own idea of what should be written on the signs.

“What it should say is ‘No flyers! Go Away!’” he said.

Explaining the need for the signs, Maisel said the unwanted leaflets are creating a mess in front of people’s homes.

“They are cluttering our streets. We come home, it’s raining, it’s a mess,” he asserted.