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NYC’s Absurd and Costly Proposal Will Destroy Small Businesses

NYC’s Absurd and Costly Proposal Will Destroy Small Businesses

June 27, 2023 Last Edit: June 5, 2025

NYC's Absurd and Costly Proposal Will Destroy Small Businesses

ALBANY, NY (June 27, 2023) – The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), New York and the nation’s leading small business advocacy organization, released the following statement by NFIB State Director Ashley Ranslow in reaction to New York City moving forward with a proposed rule to restrict coal or fire brick ovens in pizzerias: “The New York City Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) announcement to move forward and seriously contemplate costly restrictions on wood or coal-fired pizza ovens is absurd and illogical. Small businesses continue to face an avalanche of immense financial pressures stemming from inflation and labor shortages, while also navigating the state and city’s high taxes and stifling regulations. These small, often generational, and family-owned pizzerias cannot possibly absorb tens of thousands of dollars to install and maintain scrubbers to comply with this radical proposal. Pizzerias will close, and neighborhoods and communities will suffer. This is yet another example of an out of touch and overly burdensome regulation from New York’s bureaucrats that are single-handedly making the Empire State and City hostile to business while also destroying what’s left of the small business economy.” >>>>> Coverage of State Director Ashley Ranslow’s statement was included in the Queens Chronicle and The Wave (the Rockaways).
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