Gothamist: Newspaper Condos Headed to Park Slope

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Thu, 10 May 2007 11:25:14 -0500

Am I the only one who thinks they're garish? They look poorly built, sort of like something asymmetrical that a mall puts up in order to look "edgy" for the youth. Does anyone remember the street furniture brouhaha a couple years back, when Clear Channel was going to put up these boxes throughout Manhattan? There are two problems. Firstly, they limit the number of papers that can be distributed. Secondly, whoever owns the box controls the selection of news sources. Avoiding the Clear Channel example, let's say a BID (and not the PSCC) ran the boxes. If a neighbohood paper ran a negative investigative piece about one of the BID's leading businesses, it wouldn't be hard for them to pull the paper's distribution, which could shut a small news outfit down. Then again, screw Park Slope

bigtimetopbanana

Thu, 10 May 2007 09:37:26 -0500

hopefully they will stop the rain getting in and ruining all the L magazines..

J$

Thu, 10 May 2007 00:29:02 -0500

they look pretty cool and take up less space than a long row of racks... garbage cans are already in the process of being upgraded: velvet-sea.blogspot.com/2007/03/supersized-garbage-cans.html

PJ

Wed, 09 May 2007 21:09:53 -0500

as long as they really replace the existing boxes

Toby

Wed, 09 May 2007 18:06:11 -0500

They look worse than what they are supposed to replace.

smitty

Wed, 09 May 2007 17:59:23 -0500

you can still put a sticker on one of those things.