You can always find interesting signs in Bed-Stuy. Sometimes the signs themselves are unusual or funny and sometimes it’s the context that makes them funny. Just a few nights ago I saw a billboard announcing a treatment for hemorrhoids, and it was placed on the wall of a take-out restaurant. I wanted to get a picture, but it was late at night and my camera doesn’t do so well in the dark. It’s probably time for me to ditch the point-and-shoot and get a real camera.
These signs that I found on the corner of Quincy and Bedford that read “BE” coupled with the “One Way” and “Stop” taken altogether turn into some sort of Chinese fortune cookie philosophy: There is only One Way–you must Stop and just BE. I guess the arrows mean that salvation can be found further down Quincy. A real reporter would’ve followed the arrows and found out what this BE is all about. I prefer to leave it a mystery.
