TIL: in 1937 a group tried (quite unsuccessfully) to ban dogs from NYC

“Rid New York City of dogs?” said Mrs. Frank Clarke, a dog owner living on 18th Street. “I’d like to see
them do it."

Here's the ringleader of the NYC dog-haters... Judge Charles Albert Oberwager, who notably ruled that the Greek classic Satyricon is *not* pornography and ordered a woman jailed for 3 months for defiantly rolling down her stockings in Union Square https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Albert_Oberwager

the lede on the New York Daily News item about the poor young woman who ended up in the workhouse for bare knees is pretty priceless...