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The NY Post reports that the MTA is removing a LED advertising screen from the R/W subway entrance at Cortlandt Street, after Assemblyman Scott Stringer said it would be disrespectful to have a screen so close to Ground Zero. Stringer said, "We can now ensure the anniversary of 9/11 can be commemorated with dignity." Gothamist believes in commemorating September 11 with dignity and it's great that the screen at Cortlandt was removed, but how is that different from the other advertisements in the area - including the other LED screens in the nearby blocks? Stringer, who represents the Upper West Side, has been railing against these screens since last year. He has even formed a website to inform his constituents of the stop-the-LED-screens campaign, Stop MTA, and gotten the screen at 86th and Broadway removed. Stringer, we're looking to you to battle the MTA and Clear Channel's outdoor division to get the screen taken out one by one - except the ones that give error messages, because those are kind of cool in this post-apocalyptic, overloaded-technoloical society way.
The City's preliminary September 11 plans.
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While I think Advertisements around the WTC site (I really don't like calling it "ground zero") is disrespectfull, unless there is a Policy change in the MTA (Ha!) or the City Council passes an ordinance preventing them, this will just happen again. We might need a State level law to stop this...
i'd like to see this on all the LED screens:
They should keep the blinky ads in Times Square and spare the rest of us. Those LED ads are really ugly and annoying, it makes the whole city seem seedy in a Las Vegas way.
I like the no-name movement on the Lower East Side.
I look at the blinking screen all day at work--I need a rest from these blinking screens when I am walking down the street.
I kinda like the LED signs. They're futuristic and are as dynamic as New York City itself.
if I had to choose between the disrespectful LED screens and all the disrespectful tourists that stand in front of the site smiling for pictures, I would choose the LEDs.
In May and early June, that particular LED ad on the Cortland Street stop was displaying ads for the Republican National Convention.
Everything looks the same. The streets are beginning to look like the computer screen. People are looking like characters from some games or tv shows. Even all attempts to scream individuality, like tattoos all look the same.
Yeah, give me a break from LED screens. Using a computer is a choice--having these screens blare at me on the street is NOT a choice. Get rid of 'em.
jenny, you took the words right out of my mouth. the LED screens are nothing compared to the tourists smiling and posing in front of the site. And why don't they ban all the crap that they sell down there? the hats, the t-shirts, the mugs, the post-cards and photos... it's in bad, bad taste and utterly disrespectful.