NYC’s Grid Might Actually Make Bill DeBlasio’s Big Open-Door AC Crusade

“It’s the middle of the summer in New York City, it’s 90 degrees, you walk by a store, and the door is wide open and the air-conditioning is blasting”.

This will be de Blasio’s first trip to Israel as mayor.

Mayor Bill de Blasio will visit Israel late next week to speak about anti-Semitism and security challenges faced by cities, and the trip will be paid for by an Israeli entrepreneur as a gift to New York City, his office said Thursday.

Mayor Bill de Blasio signed off on the law saying that leaving the doors open while air conditioning is on is a waste of energy. He added: “Our city can not afford to wait any longer, and we are taking a few very important steps here today”. “That’s having its own impact on global warming”.

The new law expands previous city regulations that merely cracked down on stores 4,000 square feet or larger, or part of a chain of five or more stores. The new legislation removes the size requirement, making this law applicable to businesses of any size. He denounced anti-Semitic violence in Europe at a major New York synagogue and in a trip back in January to Paris following terrorist attacks there. The agency started its own campaign called “Shut the Front Door!” this summer to discourage the practice.

The laws – a package of eight City Council bills passed earlier this year – are meant to further regulate a Department of Correction that has been buffeted by allegations of brutality that led to appointment of an outside monitor under an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department. But with fall in full swing, New Yorkers probably won’t have much opportunity to tattle on violators until 2016.