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INCREASE: Overdose deaths in the city remain at epidemic levels, according to Health Department
statistics. And although preliminary numbers for the fi rst half of 2018 indicate a
plateau, they will likely rise as more toxicology reports come in, according to an agency
researcher. Department of Health
ADDICTION
measures, including efforts to substitute
more addictive strains of the
drug with less harmful opioids such as
Buprenorphine or Methadone , abstinence
based rehabilitation, referrals
to clean needle-exchange programs ,
and Naloxone trainings — which leaders
of the local public-hospital system
and Borough President Adams have
hosted across the borough.
And last May , Mayor DeBlasio announced
his intention to open one of
the country’s fi rst government-sanctioned
safe-injection facilities — where
addicts can shoot up under the supervision
of professionals — in Boerum
SIGN FINES
their commercial space, according to
Rudansky, but many entrepreneurs
claim their landlords force them to
pay the penalties regardless of whom
they are sent to.
And the city should have recognized
this work-around in preparing
the recently passed legislation, especially
because many entrepreneurs
claimed to be unfamiliar with the
codes they were fi ned for violating in
the fi rst place, according to Colton.
“The city has put small businesses
in a tough situation based on some unenforced
antiquated regulation that
the business owners have no knowledge
of,” the pol said.
Espinal intended to include terms
requiring full or partial fi ne reimbursement
as part of the legislation he
introduced last March, according to
two of his staffers, who said other city
offi cials put the kibosh on that idea because
the penalties were based off a legitimate
law.
That law requires signage permits
to ensure placards don’t fall off and
injure passersby, according to Rudansky,
who said the cost for the Buildings
Department–issued permits depends
on the type of property and the estimated
cost of the sign, with permits for
illuminated signs starting at $225.
But the law mandating signage permits
also requires applicants to posses
city-issued sign-hanging licenses,
which cost $100 and last for three years
before applicants must pay an additional
$75 for subsequent three-year
renewals. And the license requirement
leads many business owners
to outsource the permit-application
process to sign-hanging companies,
which often tack on extra fees, according
to some entrepreneurs.
One Bensonhurst business owner
who last year shelled out $6,000 for
a sign violation — and an additional
$2,800 to a sign company that secured
the permit for his 45-square-foot, illuminated
sign — demanded the city
return every cent he paid for his allegedly
problematic placard, which he
said hung outside his store for more
than a decade without receiving a single
complaint.
“The city should give back all the
fi nes that they gave,” said Freddie
Benz, the owner of Benz Jewelers on
86th Street between Bay 25th and Bay
26th streets. “It’s not right what they
did to small-business owners, especially
when they do it without warning.”
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Hill.
But the scheme, which also calls
for opening similar facilities in the
Bronx and Manhattan, hit a standstill
shortly after he revealed it, because
it requires a green light from Gov.
Cuomo, who has shown no signs of issuing
his approval.
Jesse, meanwhile, now works a fulltime
job while fi nishing up the last of
his six-month outpatient programs
with Dynamic Youth Community,
which will wrap in early summer.
And he plans to go to college after
completing rehab, with the goal of
becoming a teacher — something he
would never have aspired to were it not
for his grueling addiction experience
and subsequent rehabilitation, he said.
“Every day I think that I’m not dead
and life is just great,” he said. “And
there’s not one day that I would want
to go back to the way things were.”
If you or someone you know suffers
from opioid addiction, contact the Department
of Health by phone at (888)
NYC–WELL, via text by messaging
WELL to 65173, or online at nycwell.cityofnewyork.
us , to fi nd a treatment pro-
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