American Apparel's Lower East Side Billboard Saga: Neighbors Triumphant

Well, the neighbors finally got fed up.
This week, after someone defaced American Apparel's now infamous billboard at Allen and Houston Streets, the T-shirt chain has finally removed and replaced it with a marginally less offensive one. Rather than the typical vulgarity one usually finds scrawled on subway posters, this bit of graffiti features classic New York liberal anger, ("Gee, I wonder why women get raped?" for those having trouble making it out in the image above) and while we don't necessarily subscribe to the "porn=violence" theory, we admire the neighborhood's determination to make their feelings about the billboard known, especially in the face of the American Apparel's insensitive indifference and lack of respect for its neighbors and fellow merchants.
Thanks to faithful readers like Jessi for keeping us abreast of the situation.
How'd they get up there anyway?
American Apparel vs. the neighborhood pt II (AnnieNYC)
New billboard image: Billboards: American Apparel Does It Doggy Style on Allen (Racked)

 

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