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We found this strange, yet awesome old sign at the front end of 4th Avenue’s Coney Island bound F/G platform.
It reads, “Get In Where You Fit In.” While a truer or more philosophical phrase might not have ever been written, we’d really like to add something to the end of that sign that reads, “Would You Like Some Lead Paint With Your Commute?” Just look at that ceiling. Yikes!!!
We remember the moment, as a little kid, that we realized that some adults were plain old stupid. It was autumn 1990, Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait, and the United States was sending over tens of thousands of troops as part of Operation Desert Shield, the prelude to the first Gulf War. On a Wednesday afternoon on the corner of 4th Avenue and 97th Street, a bunch of Brooklyn mothers talked about the crisis going on in the world. One mother asked, “Did you hear that the city sold the Verrazano Bridge to Saddam Hussein?” All of the other mothers in the group of ten or so were shocked at this rumor and said “No! Oh my god, this is terrible.”
They then went on about how crazy it was for the city to have sold the bridge to Hussein, and didn’t once ever stop to think about reality. They were merely swept up in their own xenophobia to see the truth at hand — and were at one point probably happy at having been able to purchase the Brooklyn Bridge themselves for the low price of $100.
Fast forward 20 or so years, and we’re just as shocked at the stupidity of people in 2011 as we were in 1990, and it’s all due to this street sign on 3rd Avenue and 76th Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
“Al Nahas Way” is a dedication to a man who was named Al Nahas, who was a businessman and all around good guy for 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge.
Yet we’ve heard some locals who are too stupid for their own good get all up in arms about the sign, making the jump from Al Nahas to al-Qaeda. “What’s this world coming to?!” as well as, “the arabs are taking over everything.” We’ve heard people say about the sign.
Sometimes it’s just too hard to comprehend that people still need to wake the heck up out of the cocoon of unknowing and ignorant hate that they’ve created for themselves in a modern world where learning and understanding is so easily accessible.
On Monday we posted about how Uncle Louie G’s ice cream is planning to open up a shop in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn on 3rd Avenue at 87th Street. All that the sign pretty much said was “coming soon” but that’s just not cutting it for the people of Bay Ridge, who have been lacking an easily accessible source of the deliciously yummy Uncle Louie G’s ice cream for far too long.
We spotted a note affixed to the front window of the soon to be Uncle Louie G’s last night that asked, “How Soon?”
The locals are restless with a fever, and the only cure is Uncle Louie G’s Jamaican Rum Raisin ice cream.
While we know what the NYC DOT actually means with this sign in the East Village, it is still giving off a mixed message to the many ignorant drivers of motor vehicles of pass through New York City.
The sign is meant to tell bicyclists that they are in fact going in the wrong direction, much the same way that there are signs on the exits of highways that say “wrong way.” However, those highway signs don’t say, “cars/trucks wrong way.”
So if you hop, skip and jump with me here, due to the this sign having a bike on it, this sign can also be misread by drivers as saying that bicycling is indeed the wrong way to get about town — when in fact, bicycling is a great way to get around town, once you get a seat that doesn’t hurt your bottom.
The signage on the Tio Pio storefront in Downtown Brooklyn got us thinking…
And we can only hope that “tio pio” means “sexy chicken” in a some native Peruvian dialect.
Sexy chicken!