It’s déjà vu time once more at Manhattan’s downtown oasis, where tourists and locals alike do daily battle with buzzing swarms of ticket sellers trying to get one’s attention— and money.
Call him the man with a plan—again. Having proposed legislation to reign in Battery Park’s ubiquitous, aggressive and often duplicitous tourist ticket scammers in May 2025 that failed to go anywhere, downtown City Council Member Christopher Marte is giving the regulatory tack another go.
Whether Marte’s...