Here is the Village Voice on NYC: New York City’s Struggle to Take Down Illegal Billboards.
Also read: Blight inside Philadelphia City Hall

Public Ad Campaign brought 1181 Broadway to our attention in this blog post. Let’s take a look:

It is located at Broadway and West 28th Street. Here’s what it looked like in Google Street View. On March 20, 2007, an Environmental Control Board violation was issued against this sign. A $15,000 fine was imposed, which is [...]

The biggest illegal billboard issue in New York City is not Fuel Outdoor’s mini-posters but illegal third-party signs within 200 feet of the City’s highways operating under first-party permits. Take a cab from LaGuardia to Midtown, and virtually every billboard you see within 61 metres of the highway, like these, is illegal:

New York City passed [...]

On July 1st, IllegalSigns.ca was in New York City and conducted a workshop on fighting illegal billboards. This is the presentation we gave [PDF Format 6MB, OpenOffice Format 33MB].

The turnout was great. Now, in an alliance with the Anti-Advertising Agency, we have started a web site, IllegalBillboards.org to make use of some of the things [...]

We previously took a look at Fuel Outdoor in Fuel Outdoor - The Dirtiest Billboard Company in America. Fuel Outdoor is expanding nationwide with an aggressive legal strategy that sees them build hundreds of illegal billboards in a city, then sue the city on First Amendment grounds.
In New York City, Fuel is rampant. The problem [...]