Still, board member Jay Adolf was skeptical of wiping out newsracks altogether. Because you'd have to be a dodo to allow them to remain." "Newsboxes should have to go the way of the dodo. "New York City sidewalks have become a de facto advertising space," said resident Ian Alterman, referring to the loud signs and catalogues in and around the boxes. Others wondered if the newsracks were even necessary in the digital age. "Calling them newsracks has become a misnomer," said Glazer, who said they were "decaying, defaced and damaged." Marc Glazer, the board member who has championed the movement to rid the streets of the racks, urged the board to seize the opportunity for the neighborhood to take the lead on an issue.
I can think of 20 of these things around the entrance to The Belnord," he said of the apartment building. "They're almost universally decrepit, they're empty. "We're plagued with these newsracks," said board member Thomas Vitullo-Marti. The boxes, clustered at street corners and filled with free newspapers and advertisements, often sit empty and are dirty, board members noted.
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UPPER WEST SIDE - Local leaders fed up with plastic newsrack boxes they say clog and blight the neighborhood streets voted to ban them this week.Ĭommunity Board 7 's full board voted almost unanimously Tuesday for the city to immediately remove any newsracks in disrepair.
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