If you live in NYC only blades greater than 4" are banned in public places unles...

dfc · on May 25, 2013

This is not true. The NYC DA has made a fuss over gravity assisted knives:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/suit_sticks_it_to_manhatt...

I also think there is a restriction that pertains to open carry versus concealed (even if concealed means a spyderco clipit hanging inside your pocket).

oijaf888 · on May 26, 2013

Yeah open carry of any knife is illegal which sounds like that's what they charged him with.

http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAW... seems to indicate that gravity knives are legal but perhaps there are other laws that apply. http://www.akti.org/action/new-york-city-knife-code doesn't seem to indicate any others though.