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Billboards Are For Underwear Models and Vincent Gallo
Though that airplane hauling around the ABC advertisement was plenty aggravating, at least we know someone paid dearly for it. This little piece of iconography, spotted at Myrtle and Washington in Clinton Hill, probably cost about $35. We've got no problem when cash-strapped local businesses use public property to hawk their wares, but why is a mammoth soda czar making like the holder of a garage sale? We've heard rumblings about the Bloomberg administration pimping out city infrastructure to various magnates; could this humble Brooklyn light pole be the start of the franchising bonanza?
Posted by Reed Jackson on 02/25/2005 | Permalink
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Hm. Something tells me we're not going to be seeing these here in Park Slope.
Reed, I hope you liberated this Coke bottle!
Posted by: carrie | Feb 25, 2005 4:43:42 PM
some months ago, i saw a similar sized green(?) bottle (energy drink?) being adver-boardized, on bleecker near 6th ave. it was about 10ft up on a pole so i couldn't 'liberate' it (like our prez, i feel these bottles would want to be liberated).
now, how about trees that have cloth taped around them to hide wires, wires leading to christmas (holiday?) lights on the trees? grrr!
Posted by: herb | Feb 28, 2005 9:03:32 AM
Thankfully, this one has been removed, whether by official sources or outraged citizenry, I don't know.
Posted by: Reed | Feb 28, 2005 9:28:05 AM
manhattan, i can see this; it's already wall-to-wall ads anyway. but c'mon, not in my neighborhood!
Posted by: d | Mar 4, 2005 2:25:38 PM
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