This is Kinda Cool - No one else can put their sign on our building!

[Hope]

https://ny.curbed.com/2018/8/8/17665048/brooklyn-heights-jehovahs-witnesses-watchtower-sign-illegal

 

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2018/8/9/opinion-too-late-fix-50-year-old-bureaucratic-oops-watchtower-sign#.W2xoDwJLG5E.facebook

 

 

[Cushi]

Ha!

[Greg Dent]

LOL That is funny.

 

[Buddy]

Varly interlesting

[rbrown1205]

I miss that building, but now I am looking forward to visiting Warwick someday.

[Dages]

Let it be there until after Armaggeddon so we can build a fine Museum there.

[rocket]

With this revelation that is was illegal is even more humorous when one remembers that the city helped with the electric bill because the branch wanted to turn the lights off but the airline pilots used them for their approach for landing and complained.

 

https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/VODOrgHistory/docid-502013194_1_VIDEO

[Hippo]

Great story ~ got to share it. 

[Shawnster]

8 hours ago, rocket said:

With this revelation that is was illegal is even more humorous when one remembers that the city helped with the electric bill because the branch wanted to turn the lights off but the airline pilots used them for their approach for landing and complained.

 

https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/VODOrgHistory/docid-502013194_1_VIDEO

Plus this is not the original sign from the 70s.  If memory serves the sign was updated in the 80s.  The accusation of illegality seems incorrect. 

Edited September 18, 2018 by Shawnster

[Miss Bea]

They probably lost the records of the application and approval! 

[sunshine]

Interesting but I object to the suggestion that the sign was "illegal". I'm certain that if they needed permission (and the brothers knew that to be the case)  they would have sought it.  Plus the first link said they found written documents affirming the request for and approval of the sign...   I'm curious as to whether the developers Lawyers approached the brothers to ask if they had any documentation...

 

Still if it was actually illegal but the city overlooked the fact, we can chalk that up to it being Jehovah's will and he striking the city officials with a 50 year bout of blindness as with the Syrian army and Elisha.  

Edited September 19, 2018 by sunshine

[jwhess]

I am thinking that the sign was proper and approved then, but God has now help them "lose" the records so no one else can take our place.  That is my "positive" spin....😉

[Tia]

Yes - and ABC weather anchor guy can keep saying as he points out his screen view and... "Over the Watchtower"  this morning it is ...!  

 

 

Edited November 10, 2018 by CyreJay

[ChocoBro]

i thought the sign was already removed?

 

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T he iconic Watchtower sign's 15-foot-tall letters were taken down in December but a flashing electric sign that shows the time and temperature was left standing.

 

[Leon J]

Shortly after the purchase of 97 sands, before the residence was built, there were tenants in the original building that had a exhaust vent full of pigeon nests that had to be cleaned out. Since we were the landlords it was up to building maintenance to fix it. It was about 85F in the morning when we, the paint and scaffold crew, started rigging to clean it. By the time we were ready to start cleaning, dressed in our full ppe, i just happened to look in the direction of the sign and it read 98, which meant it was probably 110 on the roof we were on. 

 

Never was a fan of that time and temp clock after that.

[Tyrrha]

It was legal, of course:

 

https://ny.curbed.com/2018/11/8/18075960/brooklyn-heights-watchtower-sign-removed-replacement

 

 

[Hope]

2 hours ago, Tyrrha said:

It was legal, of course:

 

https://ny.curbed.com/2018/11/8/18075960/brooklyn-heights-watchtower-sign-removed-replacement

 

 

 

Well, boo.  

[Gimestr]

Hilarious.  So it will always be remembered as the Watchtower building.