So then walk or use public transport. London’s huge yet easily navigable by those means. If anything cabs can be slower.

What’s the point of getting a cab if you aren’t going to talk to the driver? It’s usually a handy way of learning something about where you are, especially if you’re a tourist.

Good point. It is absurd that there are different rules for the 5 boroughs. Of course, the best way to correct that would be to change the law, not just the enforcement of it, but that would require getting Cuomo involved....

I’ll applaud when this change is applied unilaterally across the 5 boros. Right now, this “decriminalization” only applies to Manhattan, and not Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, or Staten Island, where the vast majority of middle and lower class, and minority New Yorkers live.

Until then, it’s just an official…

I applaud the move to make drinking in public a lessor offense, not necessarily resulting in arrest or prosecution, but I’m concerned that these kinds of rules often result in “selective prosecution” that have a disparate affect in minority populations. We’ve seen this happen with a lot of other types of crimes, where…