For 18 years, Wendy Marsh freely displayed the phone number of her Queens optical store on the awning hanging over the sidewalk. Now those seven digits have cost her thousands of dollars. As part of ...

Store owners will soon get a break from hefty fines for awnings with too many words. The City Council passed a bill yesterday that would impose a six-month moratorium on an obscure 1961 awning law ...

A French pastry shop avoided a fine for changing its awning color and installing vinyl lettering without approval. Le Macaron owners, Natasha and Jason Rawding of 302 S. County Road, were cited in ...