Still awaiting response from gaming company, Zynga, regarding clean up efforts on their street marketing campaign.
I’ll be reaching out to more representatives at Zynga today.
NYCTheBlog has helped me take the effort to the city, reaching out to the NYC’s Sanitation department.
Meanwhile - I just wanted to thank you EVERYONE so far helping get the word out: BoweryBoogie, NYCTheBlog, NYPress, EVGrieve, CitizenNYC, and others!
Thank you!
‘Mafia Wars’ Dollar Stuck to Capital One Bank, near 10th & 2nd Ave.
Previously: East Village Feed to Zynga: Please Clean Up ‘Mafia’ Dollars
Obligatory citizen journalism reblog.
Editorial, from Matt:
Question:
Is this what’s truly got you worked up, Neighborhood?
Really?
I get it, if cars, windows, or other private property are tagged. But lamp posts? The sidewalk? You really want to start down this path when every band and coffee shop this side of Third Avenue has taken to guerilla-style marketing from time to time?
Do the citizens of the East Village, the grittiest of the gritty, some of the Original Punks, really wish to appear whinier than San Francisco?
Calling out Fred and Union Square Ventures? I don’t imagine the company ran this by the Board before sending some interns out to sticker-bomb the corner below the neighborhood’s newest video game store. Did you e-mail Fred directly? Send him a tweet? Comment on his blog? He’s very responsive, if you really wish to bring this to his attention. Publicly naming him and USV guilty-by-association is equivalent to Greenpeace calling out Apple for “Not being green enough!” when they’re really just doing it to shamelessly jump aboard the Apple publicity train. Would it please anyone to see Fred don an orange jumpsuit and rock a steam cleaner at St. Mark’s and Third? Or Steve Jobs planting apple trees?
I know Ken and Paolo aren’t in the link-bait business, and the Twitter/E-mail outreach campaign is commendable, but, again, and just my from-the-hip reaction, biggest concern in the East Village right now?
Not the recent shooting on Fifth Street, or the robbery on St. Mark’s, which come amongst a noted increase in crime in the neighborhood? Or remembering Eric “Taz” Pagan, who was murdered outside Forbidden City a year ago this week? Or even the effort to save our community gardens?
How about the mosque? Or the cabbie stabbing?
Stickers on sidewalks? Distasteful, yes.
But, not shell casings?
What do you really think, Neighborhood?
Let us know!
P.S. The fake bullet holes, Zynga? THAT’S poor taste, especially in this neighborhood…
