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The Village Voice's Tom Robbins looked at the city's impending announcement of an outdoor agency to handle all the advertising that goes on "3,300 bus shelters, some 330 newsstands, and 20 public toilets" - a $1 billion deal. One article looks at the politics behind the bidding, with French firm Decaux the frontrunner (it donated money to the NYC 2012 bid!). The second article hit closer to home, because it bemoans the slow saturation of outdoor advertising all over. Think Houston Street and Broadway/Lafayette: Gothamist has to agree that it's slowly becoming a Times Square South, with many huge billboards...that big PSP model...the Adidas ads...all the alcoholic beverage we're supposed to like 'cause we're downtown. Once upon a time, we'd be able to concentrate on seeing the rooftop watertanks, but now we're distracted by David Beckham (perhaps not unhappily distracted, but still).
However, Gothamist is in favor of billboards with pandas on them. Unfortunately, the Threadless billboard has been replaced by one for Brooklyn Industries, but we still have our Pandamonium shirt.
Photograph of Lafayette Street by Scott Heiferman
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For what it's worth, I'm in favor of bill boards with Jen Chung on them, as that would be an improvement over whatever it might obscure.
Jen, you're in the industry, so you oppose of outdoor advertising?
Thanks re: the Panda ad....I was wondering which ad was replacing which one the other day when I took the above linked photo...
er, this photo:
http://flickr.com/photos/matthewkrautheim/28596164/
So the city is formalizing its relationship with outdoor advertisers while simultaneously cracking down on private dwellings that might want to benefit from the same activities, e.g. The Flatiron Bldg.? Sounds like the same old rational stuff from city gov't. As for outdoor advertising itself, NYC isnt' Walden Pond. Never was and never will be. The city was discovered, established and incorporated for the purpose of economic exploitation. If one is not a fan of commercial exposition and the pursuit of filthy lucre, another city might be be a better place to find one's home. I personally find that oversized, garish, borderline obscene billboards are one of the things that set this great city apart from the more tame and buttoned-down parts of the U.S. Billboards of pandas are also ok.
History of the United States of America.
History of the United States of America.
Chinese food, is a unique, tasty and very common cuisine which usually consists of two main ingredients. The first being a carbohydrate source such as rice or noodles. The second component that is used in chinese food can be vegetables, fish or meat.
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