A surviving memento of a bygone era, photographed in Brooklyn, on Lafayette Ave. between Grand and Classon (40°41’19.8″ N, 73°57’39.6″ W, sez the iPhone’s GPS). Next to it appears to be one of those spontaneous memorials that arise when someone is killed on the street.
Museum of Bad Ideas? I like that, I like that a lot. I think it is a GREAT IDEA! Museum of Bad Ideas…
By: tim schreier on August 19, 2009
at 11:35 am
No shortage of material to work with, Tim!
By: dhenwood on August 19, 2009
at 12:14 pm
Oh, I have enough, personally, to fill an entire wing
By: tim schreier on August 19, 2009
at 12:50 pm
Wow, it looks like you and I live in the same neighborhood. It’s a pretty interesting race/class/architectural crazy quilt, isn’t it?
By: Chris Maisano on August 19, 2009
at 9:34 pm
3% was a lot , by the end. I knew people getting mortgages with nothing down.
By: purple on August 20, 2009
at 1:17 am
Relic? Sad to say that’s no relic. FHA mortgages still require just 3% down, and that’s likely what that sign is advertising.
By: Alyssa Katz on August 26, 2009
at 1:10 pm
I think it is a relic – the company listed at the bottom seems no longer to exist.
By: dhenwood on August 26, 2009
at 1:28 pm
OT, a weasely Nation magazine correspondent you’ve interviewed in the past has gone apeshit against Noam Chomsky, mouthing off Holocaust analogies with abandon. Perhaps, as corrective to your previous indulgence you can do an interview of a more sober analyst on the subject.
By: sk on August 26, 2009
at 1:44 pm
Here is Chomsky’s response and also a recent debate on the larger issue.
By: sk on August 26, 2009
at 1:50 pm