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Time Out New York / Issue 628 : Oct 11–17, 2007

Sights & Blights

Storefronts: Blights

How many do you see in a day? Enough to know that they make up a big chunk of the city’s aesthetic landscape. Forget inner beauty: Long live the shops with a pretty face—and fie on those garish others!

1 Dunkin’ Donuts
2 Chain banks
3 Irish pubs
4 Duane Reade
5 Cell-phone stores
Blights 6–10

Fast-food joints are supposed to look aggressively cheerful, but there’s something nauseatingly artificial about Dunkin’s colors—they’re not just orange and mauve but Halloween-pumpkin orange and bad-’80s-sweater mauve. There are 399 outposts in the city, with 44 more planned. It’s an unstoppable plague: Each neon branch of this Massachusetts-based chain saps NYC of its own rich visual history, one Munchkin at a time.

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