Is it that trashy it needs to be regulated for the view? Offensive or otherwise.
I hear ya. That area is the hub of PR etc.
Well, frankly, here’s the situation. Imagine you are 40 years old and you invest the entirety of your life savings in a property overlooking something. Let’s say you sell chickens. Then, all of a sudden, your town’s biggest property owner, and a best friend of the mayor, who also happens to be in the chicken business, puts up a sign in front of your building - because he owns the rights to that space - advertising chickens. Well, it’s not very fair, is it. Or, let’s say, your landlord decides, all of a sudden, to ruin your view or eliminate it completely. One day you have your savings invested in a place with a nice view and the next minute you’ve got the back end of a neon sign to look at. On a different scale, imagine you are a farmer with clear light to the West and all of a sudden it’s covered in BURMA SHAVE ads. And believe it or not that is exactly what has happened in Times Square, with or without the chickens and the Burma Shave. I’ll leave the specifics up to you, but Times Square is no “institution.”