Billboards: Virgin Mobile

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Seen here on Houston Street at Avenue B, an enormous Virgin Mobile billboard giving props to walk-ups and sketchy liquor stores. Nice one. No, no, Virgin Mobile—for understanding the realities and challenges of our elevator-free, tenement-dwelling lives, you rule.

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