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This is a letter to the editor, by Alicia Civitello, Midtown, in the City section of last Sunday's New York Times:

Bye-Bye, Street Fairs, Don’t Hurry Back

Is the street fair season finally over? In mid-October there was a street fair outside my home on Eighth Avenue less than three weeks after the previous street fair was held there.

Isn’t it time to draw the street fair era to a close? Are neighborhoods being helped, or only the companies that organize the events?

Almost every weekend between May and October, one or more areas of the city are inaccessible by car, which means no ride home in a taxi with a heavy package, no deliveries, no trip to the doctor for someone in a wheelchair and even no regular bus service.

I would be willing to put in the first $100 in a “street fair compensation fund” to provide alternative revenue for the city. There may be tens of thousands of others who would actually like a quiet weekend at home who might care to join me.
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I think occasional inconvenience is part of the deal when living in the city, because this inconvenience is also accommodation for others.