by Izzy 
The year was 1922 and prohibition in Greenpoint was already well underway. Led by the Anti-Saloon League and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, the dry forces had succeeded in convincing legislators that alcohol fueled little more than wife beating, child abuse, crime and poor labor productivity.
With banning in the air, Peter J. McGuinness – the old-fashioned Irish ward boss of Greenpoint – decided to sponsor a…
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I think the question of e-cigs will hinge on whether they pose risks to others who may be in the same confined space as the person using the thing. Also, is this the McGuinness of McGuinness Boulevard fame?
Yes, look at 1964 in this link.
And the same women’s groups would protest McGuinness’s idea to move the sculpture Civic Virtue from City Hall to the Garden Spot.