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News Lands City's First Parks Smoking Ban Ticket
The Daily News landed the city's first smoking cigarettes ban ticket Friday - and it took all day to do it.
The News sent one staffer to the beach at Coney Island and another to the High Line, spending a total of six hours doing everything they could to get a ticket. They got a first-hand look at the lax enforcement.
Photographer Pearl Gabel, after flagrantly puffing in the presence of a Parks Department officer for a couple hours, finally scored about 6 p.m.
"I warned you before," said Officer Carlton Conheim, a smoldering enforcement agent with a menthol green uniform.
Then he wrote out a $50 summons for ignoring the ban, which began on Monday, that prohibits smoking cigarettes in parks, pedestrian plazas and beaches.
"Have a nice day," Conheim said.
Then he turned on his heels and headed back down the High Line.
Getting the ticket wasn't easy.
Gabel had to walk a mile with her Camel Lights before she even saw a Parks officer. Standing 4 feet away, the officer refused to even look at the shutterbug, who was smoking cigarettes like a chimney as he passed.
Newser Joe Jackson headed to Coney Island, lighting up his first American Spirits cigarette just after 2 p.m. An NYPD officer assigned to the 60th Precinct gave Jackson an immediate heads-up.
"Be careful," he said. "Parks Department will give you a ticket."
The NYPD will not enforce the smoking cigarettes ban after several City Council members feared the new law would be an excuse to question and frisk people. But at the beach yesterday, it didn't appear Parks police were enforcing it either.
Two Parks police officers patrolling the Boardwalk in an SUV didn't give Jackson a second look as he took a drag on a cigarette. Other Parks officers made eye contact, but then zoomed by on four-wheelers.
Nearly four hours bled off the clock. Parks police officers rolled back and forth. Jackson burned through seven cigarettes. And nothing. Not even a warning from the Parks police.
The Parks Department has said that with 400 officers patrolling 1,700 parks and 14 miles of beaches, it doesn't have the manpower to enforce the law. City officials said they were depending on the public to enforce the ban.
Good luck with that.
Michael Mooney, 28, a soul singer from Queens, was enjoying the weather on the High Line yesterday. No one hassled him about his habit.
"I was smoking cigarettes over by the bench and no one gave me a problem," he said.
Marga Morrissey, 20, of Westchester County, was fuming about the ban.
"I think it's absolutely ridiculous," she said while soaking in the sun at Coney Island, where signs warned of the smoking cigarettes ban. "In outside spaces - it's ridiculous. In restaurants, it's an enclosed space. But in outdoor air, it's not really affecting anybody."
If Parks cops tried to give her a ticket, she said she would try to beat it.
"I'd show him my dad's PBA card," added the retired Westchester police officer's daughter, who carries the card in her bag.
On Bloomberg, she added: "He wants to ruin everyone else's time - just chill."
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