[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] They were complaints about an arcane New York City statute requiring special permits for businesses to hang signs or awnings larger than six square feet. The businesses did not have a license for their signs, the complaints said. But it wasn’t just a couple of days of calls, city data shows. In Brooklyn, the hardest-hit borough, 234 calls about illegal signage were made to New York City’s help line in November — compared with 23 the same month last year.

Source: New York Times December 11, 2018 10:00 UTC