We didn't know they were called "stanchions" but will miss them anyway in BPC.

We were surprised when we read that The Battery Park City Authority wants to make the area even more boring by "limiting" certain types of signs that businesses currently display. In order to make the neighborhood look like Ohio reduce "visual clutter", the BPC is proposing to eliminate "stanchions" (what? right, the sandwich-board signs on the street) and limit businesses to only one sign per window which can only have the name of the business and its logo.

We don't really understand why the BPCA would want to do this, although we do wonder what other tricks the Riverhouse, one of our most favorite CILFs has up its sleeve to sell the rest of those darn units.