I was in City Hall yesterday to check out the final public hearing for the big Con Edison waterfront project near the UN. My friend Matt works for SOM, one of the architecture firms involved in the project, and we anticipated a good chair-throwing, vegetable-tossing, community-versus-developer bloodbath.
There was some gavel-pounding, but overall, it was pretty docile so I started staring at the ceiling… and misread a grandly-framed quote by George Washington. That is some heinous text formatting. I see what you were trying to do with the justified text, but no, no no, this is the time for a good ragged-right that won’t split your money word. The graphic design police are calling you out, City Hall sign maker, ya oh snap watch out…
March 9th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
hey now! it wasn’t that boring. only long. I believe you left before people started calling us the devil. ahhhhhhh…public process as defined by the city council is for the people with the ability to sit for long periods of time…and don’t have jobs. did you notice that most of the time was taken up by representatatives of representatives that were there to make prepared comments? it’s only a possible 5,000,000 sqft of new building space. that happens all the time in the city!
March 11th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Ya I was totally disgruntled by that long line of underlings reading (and reading poorly) the statements by their reps. You’ve got a room full of all these people who’ve gone out of their way to come and be heard and you’re going to give these absentees priority? That was majorly bogus. But then it sounded like they were in some important council meeting and if that’s the case, well ok, but the warm bodies should still have dibs…