The Tracker has spotted newly designed Department of Transportation parking signs popping up around our offices near Madison Square Garden. They look quite different from the ones that have dotted the streets for decades, and prompted us to do a double-take. We plan to check with the DOT on whether these signs augur a citywide change. Anyone notice these signs elsewhere?
We tend to resist this kind of change. For instance, Tracker still mourns for the old Don’t Walk/Walk signs. (We snagged one -- a nice glass number -- from crews that were taking them down en masse on Second Avenue in 2003, and it remains a treasured possession.) A source tells us one that one lingered until very recently in Yorkville. A pair we’d noticed in Central Park near the Dairy (one is below, in Sept. 2005), 
long after the others were switched to the hand/man motif, has been taken down. Are any still out there?
-- Rolando Pujol
