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It amazes us about how much disinformation is out there regarding laws that are seemingly rarely enforced.  Here is yet another sign from the NYC Department of Sanitation about fines regarding dumping.

This joins the list of other City sponsored pointless signage.

While the once green plants in the many 5th Avenue B.I.D. planters in Bay Ridge appeared to be brown and dead long ago, they are now so dry that they are in obvious danger of becoming victim of a forest fire — one cigarette butt tossed in one will probably set it up in flames.

This is a shot of Bay Ridge Parkway, notice how all four corners have lovely kindling on them.  It’s obvious that nobody wants the planters and it appears as though the 5th Ave. B.I.D. has abandoned them out on the sidewalk.

This makes us wonder the question: At what point in time will the City deem the dead plants and planters garbage and remove them by way of garbage truck?

Our guess is never…

Yesterday afternoon we noticed that the huge and obnoxious billboard of Jay-Z and Mikhail Prokhorov toting the New Jersey Nets that claimed “Blueprint for Greatness” high up above Madison Square Garden was thankfully being painted over.

The quick removal of this utterly pointless billboard pretty much solidifies our opinion about the Nets — they’re not great enough to last more than one month in New York.

There are very few things in life that our fiancee told us that we’re not allowed to do.  One such specified no-no is that we should not have our face plastered on the side of a building on some big, ugly billboard while wearing a crown.

Though we’ve seen this billboard a solid 500-plus times over the past year or so, it wasn’t until we cropped the photo that we read what the billboard was actually for — a discount mortgage broker.

While we have no idea of how great of a business Power Express might be, the mere reference to it being a “discount mortgage supermarket,” the location of the business (in a residential building in the middle of a residential block), combined with the written content of the billboard, along with the image of a dude looking like a turd-head while wearing a crown and being the face of the company/billboard gives us the feeling that people should think twice about what they’re getting into by taking out a mortgage with this company.

But hey, it might only be our gut instinct making a bad call in thinking that a tried and true old school loan shark whose office is the back of a smoke filled pool hall is a better place to get mortgage than this place is.

We think that it’s fairly safe to say that most New Yorkers who have a clue about life think that Business Improvement Districts are nothing more than a sham when it comes to greater good of a neighborhood.  BIDs give power to people who shouldn’t be in the position of power, even if it’s a small amount of power.  Case in point…

The 5th Avenue BID in Bay Ridge had the foresight to buy planters and dot them across 5th Avenue, but not the foresight to ensure that the large plants planted in them would continue to be watered — 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge is now dotted with ever-browns on the corners.

Those dead plants really make the many 99 cent junk stores that are inside of the 5th Avenue BID and can’t afford to run an air conditioner in their business seem all the more appealing now.