Obama Administration: Times Square’s Iconic Billboards Must Be Removed (CBS Report)

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 3:59pm

Interesting development. Posting this on the Main Board because I am wondering if this would impact any of the signs or marquees utilized by Broadway theaters and advertising firms? Even if not, I imagine a major change like this could have some kind of impact on the Broadway houses closest to Times Square. 

CBS Report: Feds To Enforce 1965 Highway Beautification Act, Could Deny NYC $90 Million In Funding

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 4:04pm

They'll call anything iconic nowadays.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 4:07pm

Thanks, Lady Bird!

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 4:10pm

Thanks for sharing. It won't happen though. The advertising dollars are too big of a deal to lose.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 4:11pm

Tulips and daisies, tulips and daisies.

[brdway411]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 4:11pm

Seriously,  don't they have anything better to do in Washington. Give me a break. I saw this on the news last night and thought it was a report from the Onion. 

Updated On: 5/6/15 at 04:11 PM

[Kad]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 4:13pm

So, uh, I can't help but notice that there is absolutely no source in the article for this.

[Brick]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 4:16pm

What a stupid piece of faux journalism. The tiniest handful of facts buried in a heap of sensationalist quotes from pearl-clutchers galore.

It doesn't sound like the signs are going anywhere, but instead the city has been receiving funding it should've been, or hadn't been following the rules in order to receive it. I imagine that loophole will get fixed or a work-around is made.

Local news, I tell ya...

[Musical Master]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 4:16pm

This can't be real, it must be an article from The Onion right? Right??

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 4:17pm

BUT THERE WAS AN EDICT!!!!

[SNAFU]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 4:18pm

This is such a non story. NYS petitioned to get Times Square considered "aterial" to the Highways. They did and received money to help keep up the infrastructure up. Someone looked at the 1965 law and said "Oooops, this might apply". End of story, they will work out some sort of quick exclusion admendment for Times Square and move on.

 As much as I despise that part of town because of the billboards and marquees, I do understand it is what the tourists want to see when they come here because to them, that is THE REAL NYC!

 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 4:19pm

FIRST THEY CAME FOR OUR GUNS AND THEN THEY CAME FOR OUR ICONIC BILLBOARDS.

 

Thank you, The Fountainheadband for helping us see the enemy!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 4:38pm

Laugh if you want, but I've never seen Keith Watson of Flushing this upset.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 4:44pm

^^ HA!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 4:50pm

OR ELSE! says the OBAMA ADMINISTRATION! OR ELSE!!!!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 5:05pm

Whatever happened to the news?

[JBroadway]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 5:08pm

You guys are probably right about this being bogus, but still, I love the idea of Times Square becoming a bit less horrible. I'm all for removing those hideous LED billboards.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 5:09pm

I took a picture of myself taking a picture of myself taking a picture of myself taking a picture of myself taking a picture of myself taking a picture of myself taking a picture of myself taking a picture of myself taking a picture of myself taking a picture of myself taking a picture of myself taking a picture of myself on one of those billboards once.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 5:20pm

That would be a self-self-self-self-self-self-self-self-self-self-self-self-self-self-selfie. no?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 5:21pm

Yes, and that sounds a LOT like the Angel of America, doesn't it?

[Musical Master]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 8:11pm

It seems that BroadwayWorld.com News has fell for it.

[Kad]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 8:19pm

Of course they fell for it. The message board is their primary resource for half the things they post.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 8:28pm

Some naive types have apparently been swept up in Sweeps Month "news" outrage!

Coming up, what item in your fridge could be killing your children!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 9:47pm

You all laugh, but I ask you:  where are the smoking billboards from the 1970s?  Huh?

 

W.h.e.r.e. a.r.e. t.h.e. s.m.o.k.i.n.g. b.i.l.l.b.o.a.r.d.s?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/6/15 at 10:02pm

Thanks, Obama!