The poor man’s lounge.

As they often do, Andrew Rausa and a few friends spent the evening of July 4 lounging barefoot on the front stoop of a friend’s brownstone home in Brooklyn and enjoying a few beers. Escaping the indoor heat, Mr. Rausa and two friends sipped cans of Brooklyn Summer Ale; his girlfriend held an unopened bottle of a blueberry ale.

Cutting to the chase, Mr. Rausa and his friends were cited by the NYPD for drinking in public. Mr. Rausa and his friends dispute the application of the law, as they were on their own stoop behind a locked gate when cited. Mr. Rausa plans to contest his citation in court.

It seems that both the law itself, and the application of it by the NYPD, is ambiguous:

…people who received summonses after the police saw them drinking through open doorways, behind gates, on roofs and even in the hallways of their apartment buildings.

Ah, if only there were a simple solution for this…

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