I'm stealing that. After 23 years of continuous NYC living, I move out at the end of the month. I'm taking your line with me.
Ha ha! A friend of mine use to own a deli on Queen blvd in Elmhurst and he would tell me every month the city inspectors would come in and give him $1000 fines for the most absurd things; Cash register display is not 7.4 inches off the counter, cigarette display is not precisely 3.4 feet from the counter, potato chip display is crooked, on and on and he told me “It’s like North Korea” so I told him OK maybe, but the food is good so he told me “It’s North Korea with food” LOL! YES!
That city does everything it possibly can to steal peoples money and ruin them. The best is when I went to go to work one morning and saw my sideview mirror laying in the street broken, and a ticket in my windshield for “Equipment violation no sideview mirror” and the mirror was electric and cost something like $400 so I couldn’t buy one till pay day in 2 weeks and everyday the bastard gave me another ticket and another and another and already owed a lot in tickets and then they towed my car! Stole it is more like it. So then I had to buy the mirror, pay the fines, go to the pound pay for towing and storage, nice little scam they got there. I don’t think even North Korea does that stuff.