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The Fall 2017 Citi Bike expansion will increase coverage in the neighborhoods of Harlem in Manhattan, Astoria and Long Island City in Queens, and Crown Heights and Prospect Heights in Brooklyn. 140 docking stations and 2000 new bikes are planned for the expansion.
By the end of the year, the service will have 12,000 bikes at more than 600 stations throughout the city. Officials said that this is the final planned expansion of Citi Bike, but the “DOT expects to bring bikeshare to more New Yorkers and is actively exploring all available options for doing so.”
Check out City Bike for more information on the service.
Perhaps the most famous billboard to ever exist in Times Square, the Camel Cigarettes billboard used steam to fake the appearance of a smoking man.
In 1941 a billboard was installed that marked one of the most well knows advertising campaigns in history; Camel cigarettes. This billboard was apart of Times Square’s history for 26 long years. The billboard displayed a man blowing smoke toward his audience with “Camel” gleaming in bright lights.
For two and a half decades the Camel Cigarette was advertised with two novel billboards that were so clever they easily caught the attention of the passing public. Known as spectaculars, these billboards blew the illusion of a giant smoke ring every four seconds. Steam from a piston-driven diaphragm was forced out of a hole, and this mimicked a person smoking. The spectacular most often photographed was located in New York City's Times Square at 44th Street and Broadway. Some consider this Camel billboard the most famous of all outdoor advertising signs.
With the Camel billboard long gone, here is what it looks like from the same vantage point today.
