Tuesday, December 1, 2009

City leaders take another step toward making NYC completely sanitized


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.
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8 comments:

  1. Graffiti Friend of EV GrieveDecember 1, 2009 at 10:24 AM

    Yeah, Peter Vallone is the worst. Suggested next things to phase out:

    - Brick
    - Walls
    - Structures of any kind
    - Kids
    - Ink
    - Paint
    - Expression

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  2. EV GrieveDecember 1, 2009 at 10:32 AM

    Excellent points, GFOEVG.

    Add creativity?

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  3. MelanieDecember 1, 2009 at 11:19 AM

    That hurts!!

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  4. glammaDecember 1, 2009 at 1:12 PM

    guess we'll just have to tag directly on store windows..

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  5. T.E.V.B.December 1, 2009 at 1:55 PM

    Is there no opposition to this by business owners? Besides artistic value, I would think shop owners like the protective effect of rolldown gates.

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  6. Barbara L. HansonDecember 1, 2009 at 4:54 PM

    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.

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  7. GFOEVGDecember 1, 2009 at 6:19 PM

    Good point here regarding murals:

    http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/gates/

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  8. EV GrieveDecember 1, 2009 at 6:44 PM

    Ugh. I didn't event think about that, BaHa.

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