Civics and Urban Life

The Banner That Ate Park Slope: Or At Least Ruined a Community Garden

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I ran into Michele Madigan Somerville and she told me that about the banner. Y’know the banner. Everyone’s talking about THAT BANNER.

Okay, okay. For those of you who don’t know about the banner, here goes.

You know that cute corner, community garden on the northwest corner of President Street and Fifth Avenue. It’s a lovely and unexpected spot for a city garden and a pleasant place to sit, to read, to gather one’s thoughts.

Well, its beauty is being threatened by the presence of a large real estate banner. What a bad idea to put an ugly banner on the wall the garden shares with the building that houses Beacon’s Closet.

Bad idea. Bad.

So now you know about the controversial BANNER. What are we gonna do about it, folks?

3 thoughts on “The Banner That Ate Park Slope: Or At Least Ruined a Community Garden”

  1. The banner’s been taken down as I walked by at 6pm today. Wonder how that happened?

  2. I suggest the garden put up their own banner strung from 2 10′ poles to obscure the wall. Probably totally legal and no permit needed.

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