Restaurant owners in Midtown tell Eyewitness News they're being targeted by citizens enforcing New York City's noise code.
"For 27 years that we've been here, we've never had this problem," Michelle Collier, the general manager of Swing 46 JazzThe owners said the noise violations began appearing a few months ago and are coming in bulk - meaning multiple violations are being mailed in one envelope from the citizen's address. The violations are often from months prior.
"According to the letter of the law that means if the door to your bar is open and the noise is spilling out onto the street you're subject to a fine even if you're doing it in the middle of Times Square," DEP Commissioner Rohit Aggarwala said. "A couple of those enforcers read the noise code, figured out there was even more money to be made," he said. "It kind of came out of nowhere."
The DEP said it can toss out violations that appear to be frivolous, but, for the most part, the department is required under city law to pass the violations onto the business.
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