Friday, July 28, 2017

The Joey Ramone street sign is currently MIA from Joey Ramone Place



The light pole on the northeast corner of the Bowery and Second Street appears to be under repair...



And with that, the street sign for this co-named stretch of Second Street — Joey Ramone Place — is also gone... (all the street signs on the pole are MIA)...



I reached out to the Department of Transportation to see when the sign(s) might return. An agency rep promised to get back to me.

And perhaps they'll be a new Joey Ramone Place sign. The one in place looked as if it had been whacked a few times...


[Photo from 2016]

The sign first went up in November 2003. The sign is pretty high up there now after reportedly being stolen a half-dozen times. Workers raised the sign to 20 feet. Standard street signs are between 12 and 14 feet off the ground, per the Post.


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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 29, 2017 at 4:22 AM

    Good. He doesn't deserve the sign, Hilly Kristal who opened CBGB does.

    No CBGB, no Ramones.

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  2. AnonymousJuly 29, 2017 at 12:08 PM

    It should be "The Ramones Place". That seems more fitting.

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  3. AnonymousJuly 29, 2017 at 8:26 PM

    Nah it should be Hilly Kristal Place.

    Hilly paved the way for everything which came out of the East Village by opening CBGB there, nevermind "The Fillmore East."

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  4. Scuba DivaJuly 31, 2017 at 9:18 AM

    Remember when 52nd street was called "Swing Street"? I first came here in the 70s as a tourist, and had no idea what they were talking about.

    Gone, all gone. How long do these co-naming signs last before they take them down anyway?

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