Posted on 09/13/2003 12:59:18 PM PDT by ahadams2
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:54 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Pray and Pay A Manhattan church sells advertising space.
NEW YORK--Never mind that business about a camel passing through the eye of a needle, said to be analogous, in its difficulty, to a rich man entering heaven. In ads all over town, Citibank has been telling us to "live richly," and it is now doing so on a huge billboard--140 feet long--above the portico of Grace Church, at Broadway and 10th Street. The avenue bends just where Grace Church stands, making the 1846 building visible for miles downtown, a beautiful neo-Gothic jewel nestled among taller structures, a sacred pause before Broadway veers uptown to theatrical fame.
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