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I guess we've all seen the Welcome to Brooklyn signs sponsored by (and sponsoring BP Mary Markowitz):
"Welcome to Brooklyn - How Sweet It Is!" or
"Believe the Hype!" There's even an annoying sign just before the Verrazano Narrows Bridge: "Leaving Brooklyn - Fughedaboudit!"
No such self promotion here in Queens, just a modest "Welcome to Queens." If we were to step up our game a bit, I wonder what we might put on our signs: "Welcome to Queens...
1) "Where the Trees Are the Right Height." No, damn it, that's Michigan.
2) "More Diverse Than You." Too in-your-face?
3) "When You're Sick of Hearing About Brooklyn." Says it all.
4) "Where the Mets Once Played Baseball." Ouch.
Or, we could take a page out of Coventry, Rhode Island's book. Check out these signs on the old New Haven and Hartford Railroad overpass (now a bike path). Can you make it out? It reads
"Coventry - It Grows with You" (no exclamation mark, this isn't Brooklyn after all). I suggest a slight tweak:
"Queens - It Grows ON You" (or, if you are residing in one of our great cemeteries,
It Grows OVER You).
Great ideas! Esp. love the one "When you are sick of hearing about Brooklyn". Maybe add: "When you are sick of hearing about Brooklyn and don't want to move to Montclair, NJ". Maybe too long?
ReplyDeleteOr how about Queens: Food? We got it.