In a letter to OTR Media owner of the billboard in the photo near Yankee Stadium Bronx Community Board #4 has asked that this advertisement for Scores be taken down. The owner of Scores has been a rather large contributor to 11th City Council candidate Cliff Stanton. Stanton's paid political consultant Anthony Rivieccio has sent out "Vote for Cliff-he'll bring the girls to make us stiff"! Below is the letter from CB 4.
August 12, 2013
OTR MEDIA GROUP, Inc.
40 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
New York, New York 10038
To whom it may concern:
As
District Manager of Community Board Four I write to inform you that we
have received several complaints regarding the choice of advertisement
currently displayed above 103-107 East 161st Street. While we respect
your right to contract and post advertisements, we feel this particular
ad is simply not appropriate for the area and not the image that we have
fought hard to change.
We
pride ourselves as the Capital District of the Bronx. Our district is a
great place to visit, work and live. We are the host community to the
world renown, Yankee Stadium, The New Gateway Center at the old Bronx
Terminal Market, the Bronx Museum of the Arts and many Art Deco
buildings along the Grand Concourse Historic District. We just recently
developed and renovated recreational facilities, such as, tennis
courts, a state of the art track & field and a new water front park.
We are the administrative center of the County, housing the offices of
the Borough President, The District Attorney, the Courts and the County
Clerk.
We
are a community of contrasts. Sleek silhouettes of art-deco buildings
are a short stroll away from lovely small homes. Acre for acre we have
more parks throughout our two square miles than any other district and
as such we have experienced a commercial, residential and economic
revival, nearly 200,000 thousand residents celebrate our resurgence, and
welcome new cultures, languages, hopes and dreams of the many new
Americans making this district their home, from around the globe. We
celebrate their distinct and varied positive contributions.
While
the ad itself is not overtly suggestive, we believe this to be an issue
of image and mindset not morality. It is our hope that you understand
and so we respectfully ask that you remove said advertisement and place
one that does not directly contradict the change and changes we have for
the area.
Sincerely
Jose Rodriguez
District Manger
cc: Kathleen Saunders, Board Chair
Ruben Diaz, Jr. Bronx Borough President
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