The Doe Fund: Ready, Willing and Able

eggcream · September 2008

to tear down your Tag Sale and Cat for Adoption signs. These guys walking around in their blue jumpsuits are also tearing down the signs the past few days.

garfunky · September 2008

I think they are hired by the civic council.

In any event I saw them painting the same poles they had torn signs off of the day before recently.

Its kinda hard to paint poles that have paper on em, doncha think ?

I also saw these same fellows cleaning big piles of leaves and sewer schmegma off of alot of grates recently.
They also clean up all the garbage people simply drop on 7th ave despite the garbage can thats usually 10 ft away.

While im at it, if you want to give $$ to a charity, consider the DOE fund.
They provide job training and , the fellows who sign up for the DOE programs are ready willing and able to go to WORK.

This is very different from the fellows who have been sitting on 7th ave for the last 15 years simply playing on fools sympathies and still getiing drunk or high day after day with your money.

I did a benefit concert for the Doe Fund about 10 years ago.

"give the homeless a hand, not a hand out."

veets · September 2008

What was weird about my Saturday... I was looking for Stoop Sales.. starting at about 10AM today. The plan was a power walk down 5th Avenue with some breaks if I saw a Stoop Sale Sign on a post on any corner. I didn't see any! I wonder if these people were trolling 5th Ave. all day and tearing down signs.

witch-king · September 2008

These guys will put the Original Sign Ripper out of business.

cat · September 2008

The Park Slope Civic Council.. I'm sorry there are so many issues and yet they make their case for NO MENUS, NO FLYERS and No Signs on Lamposts and Poles. A lot of times the way you find out about things is the signs on the poles and even sometimes the menus.

Previously when I encountered a volunteer for Bill deBlasio's office tearing down signs, I asked "do you tear down LOST CAT signs?" and he said no. But most likely these workers are not getting the same directive from Park Slope Civic Council which I think is a bit self important.

With all the issues to tackle - evictions, gentrification, trash on streets, making a better recycling and reuse program, whatever else - these are the somewhat inane things they focus on. yeesh.

dw438 · September 2008

Garfunky wrote: I think they are hired by the civic council.

In any event I saw them painting the same poles they had torn signs off of the day before recently.

Its kinda hard to paint poles that have paper on em, doncha think ?

I also saw these same fellows cleaning big piles of leaves and sewer schmegma off of alot of grates recently.
They also clean up all the garbage people simply drop on 7th ave despite the garbage can thats usually 10 ft away.

While im at it, if you want to give $$ to a charity, consider the DOE fund.
They provide job training and , the fellows who sign up for the DOE programs are ready willing and able to go to WORK.

This is very different from the fellows who have been sitting on 7th ave for the last 15 years simply playing on fools sympathies and still getiing drunk or high day after day with your money.

I did a benefit concert for the Doe Fund about 10 years ago.

"give the homeless a hand, not a hand out."

You've got the right idea. Since the Doe Fund was hired on, 7th Avenue is much cleaner than it has been in the past. They've even painted the fire hydrants, mail boxes and traffic light control boxes.
Good for them.
As for stoop sales ... many businesses along the strip allow for posts ... and the ever popular chalk-on-sidewalk deal is usually a big winner.

The Doe Fund: Ready, Willing and Able

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