That Jackson Heights ad campaign, which has featured some bus shelter posters on Seventh Avenue among other things, is back with a new Park Slope pitch and a new slogan. The always engaging Copyranter scanned an ad out of today’s New York Times supplement, which presumably will be popping up everywhere soon. Gawker’s take on the subject can be found here.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Anonymous // May 15, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Ha Ha. Too bad it’s Queens.
Snyde comment aside, there are beautiful buildings in JH.
2 Sarah // May 15, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I still don’t understand these ads…isn’t lack of parks one of the biggest problems with living in Queens? Less park, less Slope?
3 Anonymous // May 16, 2008 at 9:23 am
I think they mean PARK-ing. (;
4 cjt // May 16, 2008 at 9:26 am
I had an awful experience the one time I had Michael Carfagna (the man behind these ads) show me an apartment—he was incredibly rude. This ad is insulting to those of us who have lived in Queens our entire lives.
5 mkl // May 16, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Aside from the buildings in Jackson Heights that have interior (and private) garden space, which are not that numerous, there are no public parks of any consequence in Jackson Heights. You are close, of course, to Flushing Meadows, but getting there entails taking the train, bus, driving or walking. Parking is not great in JH, but the place is full of all kinds of people, who exemplify what made and makes NYC, and Queens, great.
This ad makes me want to vomit and weep, in equal measure. No wannabee-in-Brooklyn folks need apply. Stay out.
But Queens is Queens is Queens, my natal place, and that of family going back to the 1850s. It will never be the new anything, and NEVER Brooklyn, OK?
G-D save Queens.