TREND WATCH: Proposed NY Bans

List is current as of 5:47 PM, Friday, December 14th ...

New York City:

2007:

1. The display of nooses
   
2. Homework that takes more than 2.5 hours/night
   
3. Horse-drawn carriages from Central Park
   
4. Feeding pigeons
5. City Council ads with holiday messages that are taxpayer financed
6. City Councilmembers using public funds for personal ads
   
7. Styrofoam containers in food services
   
8. Various contributions to city politicians
9. Etching acid
10. High rises in the Upper West Side
    
11. 'Stealing' recyclables
    
12. Peeping toms
13. Videotaping in public without a permit
    
14. Smoking in cars with minors
    
15. The word "bitch"
16. The word "ho"
17. Free formula samples for new mothers at city hospitals
18. Teenage possession of spray paint
    
19. Businesses from leaving their windows or doors open while air conditioners are on inside
    
20. Dogs from being tied up three-plus hours
    
21. Talking/listening/playing while walking crosswalks
22. Skinny models
23. The "N-word"
24. Electric-assist pedicabs
25. Public pension investments in companies with business in Sudan

2006:

1. pit bulls
2. trans-fats
3. aluminum baseball bats
4. the purchase of tobacco by 18- to 20-year-olds
5. foie gras
6. pedicabs in parks
7. new fast-food restaurants (but only in poor neighborhoods)
8. lobbyists from the floor of council chambers
9. lobbying city agencies after working at the same agency
10. vehicles in Central and Prospect parks
11. cell phones in upscale restaurants
12. the sale of pork products made in a processing plant in Tar Heel, N.C., because of a unionization dispute
13. mail-order pharmaceutical plans
14. candy-flavored cigarettes
15. gas-station operators adjusting prices more than once daily
16. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
17. Wal-Mart
18. the process that makes steaks pink
19. subway ads poking fun at outer boroughs

2004:

1. Loud car alarms
2. Vendors from Ground Zero
   

2003:

1. Cell phones during public performances

2002:

1. Toy guns
2. Soft drinks and snacks in city public schools
   

New York:

2007:

1. Texting while driving
   
2. Using I-pods/cell phones while crossing the street
3. Plastic bags
4. Nooses
   
5. Spectating dog fights
   
6. Smoking in cars with minors
   
7. Plastic water bottles
8. Styrofoam used in food services
9. Thin models