A parking company has every right to tow cars blocking their entrance, but to New Jersey? The sign was spotted outside of a Central Parking System lot in Hell’s Kitchen. It’s harsh, and probably really effective. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork)
It’s not just the Illuminati that speak through symbols and esoteric language. Here’s one Brooklyn deli worker’s clever of way of informing customers they will only be selling cigarettes by the pack from now on, so go elsewhere for “loosies.” (Photo: ANIMALNewYork)
Manhattan’s official east-west diving line, 5th Avenue, a byproduct of the city’s revolutionary street grid, is causing some confusion, hundreds of years later. Bus and street signs along the fancy corridor don’t seem to vibe. The New York Times’ caption reports: Read more »
Translated: Sorry, no bills larger than $20 accepted. Spotted at a Subway in Bed-Stuy right off the Bushwick-Williamsburg border. (Photo: Me)
Remove your sexy sign or lose the opportunity to sell liquor! That’s the choice being offered to a strip club in Queens by sexually repressed residents trying to save the children. They’ve been quite unsuccessful with their past eradication attempts and are now hoping to block the Platinum Club from getting their liquor license renewed. Sorry, but that seems even more scandalous than the sign. |NYDN|
Appropriating the medium of sports fans and panhandlers alike, Brian James photographs people posing with cardboard signs to “encourage a change in the reader, even if it is just a shift in their attitude.” With “many more people to inspire,” the photographer plans to indefinitely continue his “I’ll say it for you project,” which features such uplifting messages as “Get Lost,” “I promise I won’t buy drugs,” and “You’re Fired.”
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It’s not just Dunkin’ Donuts employees making overly redundant signs, token booth clerks are also skillful in the art of drawing up signs that attempt to say the same thing at least three different ways. Sadly, there must be a necessity for this elementary communication and the dumb question-asking public is the likely culprit.
The economy can’t be that bad with all these jobs being plastered around Brooklyn, right? If you’re not interested in doing an amateur porn flick in Bushwick, but still have a knack for theatrics how about some singing? This simply scrawled business card soliciting “DOOWOP” singers was spotted on a traffic signal box under the Flushing Avenue M-Train station. If entertainment isn’t your thing, jump for Mr. Dorn’s job offer, you don’t even need a GED and get to carry a gun.
Burned out fluorescent signs have always provided laughs throughout the years for many. Missing letters transform them into new words altogether, and in some cases, their contextual juxtapositions further the entertaining value. Like this massive sign for the Ortiz Funeral Home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This must certainly cheer up grieving families while viewing their boxed up loved ones at nightly wakes. Can some fix the bulb for Christ’s sake, even the street level billboard next to it has some light. Click continue for more ‘Fun’ angles.
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