{"id":9798,"date":"2012-01-04T00:06:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T00:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=9798"},"modified":"2017-01-11T04:16:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T04:16:21","slug":"old-mayors-never-die-they-just-fade-away-by-eli-rosenberg-courier-lifes-brooklyn-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2012\/01\/04\/old-mayors-never-die-they-just-fade-away-by-eli-rosenberg-courier-lifes-brooklyn-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Old mayors never die, they just fade away — By Eli Rosenberg – Courier-Life’s Brooklyn Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Classic-billboard afficionado Frank Jump stands by the 46-year-old “Lindsay for mayor” advertisment unearthed in Flatbush.\u00a0Photo by Steve Solomonson<\/p><\/div>\n

Hey everyone, don\u2019t forget to vote for John Lindsay this November!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flatbush residents were asked to re-elect the city\u2019s \u201cBoy Mayor\u201d all over again this week when a Bank of America billboard was removed from the side of a building on Flatbush and Bedford avenues, revealing a bit of the neighborhood\u2019s history \u2014 a Lindsay campaign ad, circa 1965, literally painted onto the building\u2019s brick facade.<\/p>\n

Yet Lindsay\u2019s day in the sun wasn\u2019t as heartwarming as you would think \u2014 nobody in the predominately Caribbean neighborhood knew who he was!<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never heard of him,\u201d admitted building resident Lucy Vizcarrondo, looking up at the faded red, white and blue piece of Americana that proclaims \u201cWe will win. Vote Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, only one out of 20 people found walking past the campaign ad could identify the controversial politician who led the city from 1966 to 1973 \u2014 and all she could recall was how good looking Lindsay was.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wasn\u2019t great, but he was one of the most handsome mayors we had,\u201d said Gloria Funderburk, who was in her 20s when Lindsay was mayor.<\/p>\n

Lindsay, a former U.S. congressman, presidential candidate, and regular \u201cGood Morning America\u201d guest host, won the mayor\u2019s race in 1965 after riding high on his patrician upbringing, Yale education and Kennedy-esque good looks.<\/p>\n

But everything went downhill from there: on his first day in office, Lindsay, who, at 45, was the youngest mayor in New York City\u2019s history, was greeted by picketing transit workers \u2014 beginning a turbulent administration mired with more municipal strikes, racial unrest and Vietnam War protests.<\/p>\n

After eight grueling years as mayor, Lindsey never held public office again. He died in 2000.<\/p>\n

The resurfaced campaign ad had more staying power than Lindsay\u2019s administration \u2014 but did little to help his 1965 campaign: Lindsay won his bid for mayor, but didn\u2019t win Brooklyn, getting a paltry 40 percent of borough\u2019s vote.<\/p>\n

Frank Jump, who recently published a book on long forgotten advertisements called \u201cFading Ads of New York City\u201d and reported the discovery of the Lindsay campaign ad on his blog marveled at the wall sign\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s amazing the ad has survived but I don\u2019t have fond memories of Lindsay,\u201d Jump said. \u201cWhat I recall is, \u2018Dump Lindsay\u2019 graffiti all over the city!\u201d<\/p>\n

Reach reporter Eli Rosenberg<\/a> at erosenberg@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-2531. And follow his Tweets at @from_where_isit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey everyone, don\u2019t forget to vote for John Lindsay this November! Flatbush residents were asked to re-elect the city\u2019s \u201cBoy Mayor\u201d all over again this week when a Bank of America billboard was removed from the side of a building on Flatbush and Bedford avenues, revealing a bit of the neighborhood\u2019s history \u2014 a Lindsay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[220,2033,551,552],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-fading-ads-of-nyc-the-book","category-flatbush","category-flatbush-avenue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-2y2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18778,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798\/revisions\/18778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}