Posts tagged signs
New Etiquette Rules Posted Around The City
The latest etiquette signs from artist Jayshells have officially made their way to the streets of New York, currently instructing passerby on Bleecker Street, Astor Place, and in Times Square on how to be good citizens. We particularly appreciate the “Pay Attention While Walking” as we almost ran over a pedestrian during a jog last night! (via Gothamist)
The section between Eighth and Broadway is signed Señor Wences Way for the ventriloquist who had appeared on the nearby Ed Sullivan Show and who lived in the Ameritania Hotel.
NYC's Speed Signs With Skeletons
New York City showed off its new skeletal speed-warning signs last week, part of the Department of Transportation’s ongoing campaign to show that a pedestrian’s odds of death are greatly reduced if the car that hits them is traveling below 30 miles per hour—the limit across much of the five boroughs. (read more at AdWeek)
CITY BREATHS: Store Front: New York's Disappearing Face
Ideal Hoisery, Grand Street at Ludlow, Manhattan (2004)
Great article at Brainpickings about the displacement that comes with gentrification.
In Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York, photographer duo James and Karla Murray bring the same lens of retrostalgia to New…
