A New Sign Of Corporate Commitment?

Many in New York see the installation of huge signs advertising Citigroup as a sign of corporate commitment.

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January 3, 2002, 10:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"To be completed this month, the new signs will bring a touch of Times Square to the once-gilded mile between the New York Public Library and Central Park. But the owners of 666 Fifth Avenue see the signs...as a reaffirmation of corporate commitment at a precarious time in civic history... 'It's too bad that this company feels it has to flaunt itself in that way,' said the architect Robert A. M. Stern, a leading champion of the preservation of mid-century design."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: Citigroup Sign Replacing Those 3 Sixes at the Top

Thursday, January 3, 2002 in The New York Times

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