Bloomberg Battles Council On Stickers

The NYC Council wants to end the practice of slapping huge hard-to-remove stickers on cars that block the street cleaning machines. Bloomberg says he'll likely veto their decision, because car owners need to suffer for their lazy ways.

At a press conference yesterday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared himself "adamantly" opposed to the City Council's recent vote to ban what members call "punitive" parking stickers, calling it "one of the less productive things that could be legislated." Last week, the City Council voted to bar the city's Department of Sanitation from slapping hard-to-unpeel stickers on the windows of cars that are violating alternate-side parking rules. Opponents of the practice say it takes an undue amount of elbow-grease, not to mention soapy water and a chiseling implement, to remove the stickers from their cars.

In some parts of Manhattan, there's an underground economy entirely based on paying people to move your car to avoid the stickers.