People v. Realmato

Appellant has been convicted of a violation of section 435-10.1 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York. In the heading of that section the proscribed offense is quite expressively described as the: “ Solicitation of pedestrians by pullers-in.” Patently, the statute was designed to restrain the zeal of New York City’s more militant merchants, who, not content to wait behind their counters for customers, projected their blandishments beyond the confines of their emporia and into the paths of passers-by. The prohibitory part of section 435-10.1 reads as follows: “ Solicitation of…