Council Approves Series of Nightclub Measures
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New York nightclubs should soon face greater scrutiny after the City Council approved a series of bills yesterday aimed at curbing violence and underage drinking in bars and clubs.
The legislation would allow the city to close businesses making or selling fake identification cards, forces clubs to install security cameras by all doors, and calls for a team of monitors to be created to check on problematic nightclubs. The council is calling on Albany lawmakers to amend bottle service rules in clubs so that a waiter or waitress would be responsible for regulating patrons’ alcohol consumption from a bottle of alcohol sold at the club.
The council also passed a bill to license and regulate pedicabs and approved a symbolic resolution calling for an end to the use of the N-word in New York.
