In predigital days, getting one's hands on hot pictures required running an often impenetrable gantlet of drugstore clerks and newsstand operators, and finding really hard-core material was out of the question.
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The newsstand operators contended that their First Amendment rights would be violated by the city's plan to increase fees to as much as $ 5, 000 a year from $ 538 every two years.
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The restrictions on sexually oriented magazines and the higher fees are part of a switch from a decades-long licensing system that contained no such restrictions, say lawyers for five Manhattan newsstand operators who brought the federal lawsuit.
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The judge did not rule on two thornier issues raised by newsstand operators in their challenge to the new regulations by the administration of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, which also plans to award news-vendor concessions through competitive bidding.
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"Newsstands are not the city's street furniture, " said Robert S . Bookman, counsel to the New York City Newsstand Operators Association, a group of newsstand owners, employees and newspaper publishers.
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But the focus on using the sides of the newsstands as billboards has stirred opposition from some newsstand operators and the city's newspapers, which are concerned that the structures will be designed more to carry advertising then to sell papers.
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A newsstand operator, Ralph Savein claimed to have seen Small buying a paper at his stand; however, this claim was later repudiated by the police, who considered it to be an attempt by Savein to gain fame from the case.
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"Norb specializes in the fleeting look at the little people of the city, the aged newsstand operators, the small restaurant owners, Greek, Bohemian, Slovak, who still provide, in out-of-the-way neighborhoods, national dishes and national atmosphere.
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The judge, Allyne Ross of U . S . District Court in Brooklyn, told lawyers for the city and for a group of newsstand operators that she needed the time to consider the issues in a lawsuit that the operators filed challenging the regulations, which were to have taken effect Friday.
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He rants about bicyclists, car salesmen, Jesus ( " I think he fell asleep at the wheel " ) and to Jake, the blind newsstand operator who works out of Becker's favorite bar : " Just because you're blind doesn't mean you've got a sixth sense.
