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Put Your City On: Michael Antonio Installation; Food Cart Wars; Public Works: More!

Washington Square Park fountain continues to be a very popular place this summer

Michael Antonio Installation on Ludlow Street [Gammablog]
• Showdown: Food cart vs. food truck at Union Square [EV Grieve]
• Two Blocks From Ground Zero: Scenes of Everyday Life [WNYC]
  
• Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center to Be Replaced by Century 21? [Racked]
• Four New York State Prisons Among Nation's Most Sexually Abusive [City Limits]
• NYCDOT will re-engineer 60 miles of streets for greater pedestrian safety [NYC DOT]
• A prototype for a new public bench at 16th Street and 10th Avenue gives Chelsea residents a new place to sit. [DNAinfo]

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Penalties Expected For Zynga's Ad Firm In San Francisco

San Francisco intends to levy “big fines, in addition to cleanup costs,” against Zynga's ad firm for their illegal ad campaign marketing Mafia Wars. Will New York City follow suit?

According to a sanitation specialist at 311 who spoke to NYC The Blog on the phone, they have an interest in speaking with Davis Elen, the marketing company responsible. Davis Elen has committed to removing the stickers, and indeed someone already has begun doing so.

Previously: UPDATED: Zynga Purposely Litters All Over Manhattan

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Hellman Electric Corp. Repainting Every Traffic Light Pole From Houston Street To Canal Street

Employees of Hellman Electric Corp. clean and repaint traffic light poles on Spring Street at Broadway

Earlier this summer, employees of Hellman Electric Corp. were seen on the corner of Elizabeth and Broome giving traffic light poles a new coat of paint. Later that week, the same men were seen cleaning and painting poles on the corner of Broadway and Spring Street at 6 in the morning.

The company, explained the employee as he scraped a pole, has a contract to clean and repaint every single light pole from Houston Street to Canal Street, river to river. How many is that? "A lot."