{"id":1836,"date":"2006-11-30T11:08:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T19:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/pigeons_are_rats_with_wings_and_outdoor_advertising_companies_are_wraps_with_wildposting.html"},"modified":"2006-11-30T11:08:57","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T19:08:57","slug":"pigeons_are_rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/pigeons_are_rat.html","title":{"rendered":"Pigeons Are Rats With Wings And Outdoor Advertising Companies Are Wraps With Wildposting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illegal outdoor advertising is an aesthetic crime, perpetrated by smarmy third-party outfits who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypress.com\/19\/48\/news&#038;columns\/feature.cfm\">no better than real estate brokers<\/a> (sure, beat up on <a href=\"http:\/\/rentaldementia.blogspot.com\/\">brokers<\/a>!):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Under the cover of construction, ads for some of the world&#8217;s biggest brands are taking up residence at many of New York&#8217;s most prestigious addresses, including many buildings designated as landmarks. So far, Stringer&#8217;s PR campaign seems to have had little affect on the number of illegal ads vying for public attention.<\/p>\n<p>Why do these blatantly illegal ads flourish in plain sight, despite the vocal opposition?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of those urban paradoxes: Some of the most conspicuous objects in the city are affixed to some of the most famous addresses in town, but it&#8217;s not clear to the casual observer how they got there. We know the brand in the ad, we know the address. But the middlemen are the mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Upon further investigation, some of the mystery is revealed: It turns out that the recent construction site blight has a lot to do with a group of firms known as outdoor advertising companies (OAC).<\/p>\n<p>Outdoor ad agencies are like real estate agencies for outdoor ad space. They are the brokers who bring landlords and brands together.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illegal outdoor advertising is an aesthetic crime, perpetrated by smarmy third-party outfits who are no better than real estate brokers (sure, beat up on brokers!): Under the cover of construction, ads for some of the world&#8217;s biggest brands are taking up residence at many of New York&#8217;s most prestigious addresses, including many buildings designated as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project_mersh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}