From the City Room:
Citing high rates of graffiti, the City Council voted unanimously on Monday to gradually ban the use of rolldown metal security gates, a move that would eliminate what has been an enduring if forbidding feature of the urban streetscape.
Image via City Rag.
8 comments:
Yeah, Peter Vallone is the worst. Suggested next things to phase out:
- Brick
- Walls
- Structures of any kind
- Kids
- Ink
- Paint
- Expression
Excellent points, GFOEVG.
Add creativity?
That hurts!!
guess we'll just have to tag directly on store windows..
Is there no opposition to this by business owners? Besides artistic value, I would think shop owners like the protective effect of rolldown gates.
And yet another burden on small store owners: the cost of removing the old gates and replacing them with Bloomie-approved ones, probably from Cemusa.
Good point here regarding murals:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/gates/
Ugh. I didn't event think about that, BaHa.
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