For those who want to own a piece of New York City but can’t afford, say, a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry, the city’s Transportation Department is offering a sign. Fifty of them.
The DOT is putting a limited edition run of 50 replica Christopher St./Stonewall Place street signs up for sale Monday, in time for Pride Month.
The signs, which are intended to honor the stretch of Christopher St. where the Stonewall Riots began in 1969, will cost $75 through CityStore.
The city already sells a small number of replica street signs, including markers for Wall St., Broadway and Grand Concourse in the Bronx.
A DOT spokesman told the Daily News that the department’s limited edition Christopher St. signs are intended as the first in a run of so-called “sign drops.”
“Our monthly sign drops will allow all who love New York City to celebrate the people, places, and special occasions that make this the greatest city in the world,” Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez said in a statement.
Proceeds from the signs will go to the city’s general fund, same as city surplus sales.
The replica signage is made in the DOT’s sign shop in Maspeth, Queens, to the same specifications as those mounted to signposts across the city, with one exception: unlike signs on city street corners, the replicas are one-sided.
