From the time I was a teenager, I have spent my entire life working in a Queens-based two-generation family business which grew into a market leader in the retail electronic amusement, music, tobacco, and ATM industry. In large measure, New York State’s policies are to blame for how this cottage industry together with a number of small businesses like mine are drying up, disappearing. Going back to 1975 there were some 300 enterprises in our industry with a presence in the greater New York tri-state region. Today there are fifty. Several hundred people continue to earn their livelihoods here.

Much of the equipment our businesses placed on New York’s streets was manufactured in America. Today, most of it is imported from China, South Korea, or Taiwan!

Our jukebox music and amusements used

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