There Are Easily More Than 500 528, But Whatever

Posted by Adam Kuban, August 24, 2004 at 2:51 PM

Blogger The Real Janelle was in Long Island City over the weekend and spotted the banner you see to the left. She thought of Slice and our GOPizza special section and was nice enough to snap a picture and send it to us.

She also took the time to do a little research and found this post in the Forward, which tells us:

New York City will hang more than 1,100 two-sided banners to promote itself during the RNC convo.

Here's the slogans:
“17,312 restaurants – that’s one a day for 47 years”
“12,750 miles of sidewalk – 1,020 shoe stores”
“Over 150 museums – we’re quite the exhibitionists”
“Go from China to Italy – by crossing the street”
“Central Park has 200 species of birds – wear a hat”
“685 miles of subway tracks – a million places to go”
“190 Places to see live theater – not counting every street corner”
“500 pizza places – low-carb diet? FUGGETABOUDIT”
“325 nightclubs – sleep when you get home”

People are skeptical that visiting GOP members will actually do any of the aforementioned activities, and, given the reports coming out of Boston, so are we. Still, we hope conventioneers try some of the great pizza NYC has to offer.

[Thanks to Janelle for the photo and info.]

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