NY Billboards Cause Fight: Free Speech Vs. Beauty

New York Times:

Since the 1940s, at least on paper, the city has restricted, or banned outright, the placement of billboards along its highways. But because of haphazard enforcement and what a federal judge described as "subterfuge" and willful lawbreaking by sign companies, the rise of the billboards - some even on city property - went on unchecked.

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