Saturday, August 31, 2013

Private property

last time me and tim were in new york, we saw this little sign on the sidewalk for the very first time. it was somewhere around times square and this is what it says; private property. permission to cross revocable at will. i had never seen such signs before and thought it was just a joke. but some googling told me that they are all around new york (and other cities too? i havent found that), and are for real! they are indicating the property line of the building, so the part of the sidewalk that belongs to the building... hahaha.
today we finally got to painting the bedroom. that was quite some work. but at least the ceiling is purple now and the walls are white....

3 comments:

Tim said...

Those shoes are my private property

biebkriebels said...

No not anymore, you have to leave one shoe there. It looks a bit like Queensday here, when people put tape on the pavement mark their own place!

Jack said...

Those signs are odd, aren't they? The reason is that, if people cross your property long enough without being prevented from doing so, then the public gets a "prescriptive easement" in the property, which lets them continue using it. In Boston, many property owners put out signs like this and also rope the sidewalk area off one day a year.