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The signs look good

By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper
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This building on Wythe Avenue at South First Street in Williamsburg is now flashing its support for Barack Obama. Earlier this year, the same string of red LED lights read, “SAVE DOMINO,” a reference to opposition to a plan to turn the former sugar plant into housing.

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Some Williamsburg residents aren’t shy about voicing their political leanings.

Just two weeks after the builder of the Edge waterfront megadevelopment unveiled a 100-foot tall banner mocking Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the residents of a Wythe Avenue building endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama by spelling out “VOTE OBAMA” with a seven-story sign.

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The building, which is between South First and Second streets, was long adorned with a string of red LED lights long that read “SAVE DOMINO” — referring to the Domino Sugar factory that will soon be converted into residential high-rises. — Ben Muessig

©2008 The Brooklyn Paper

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