Time Square Signage Requirements

[Texas_Signmaker]

Pretty neat, had no idea they require a certain amount of sign per SF of frontage.

 

[Bobby H]

In many respects, the modern LED displays being installed in locations like Times Square utterly blow away the ones depicted in the movie Bladerunner. OTOH, we don't have flying cars and murderous replicants. Still, I kind of miss how Times Square looked in the late 1980's. The signs features a LOT of neon.

FYI: the actual Times Square part of Times Square wasn't all that bad in the mid to late 1980's -contrary to what the YouTube video claims. There were a couple of adult theaters along the way, but most of the cinemas in Times Square showed regular Hollywood movies. Some of the shots of porno houses in the YouTube video were really located down on 42nd Street or a block over West to 8th Avenue. Most of the so-called "clean up" that has taken place throughout that area and across the rest of Manhattan has occurred incidentally via gentrification.