Attention godless yuppies: Put some clothes on!

My neighborhood in Brooklyn is home to one of the world's largest communities of Hassidic Jews, an ultra-orthodox sect that observes very strict rules regarding diet, dress and behavior. The men wear these round hats and thick wool overcoats (even in August!) and the women wear ankle-length muu-muus and always cover their hair. Everyone speaks Yiddish.

So when my building, a former factory, was being converted into condos - the neighborhood went nuts. Hundreds of Hassidic men came out to protest the building and the godless, licentious, Subzero-worshipping, gentrifying yuppies it would bring to the area.

I think they were afraid the new residents would prance around the neighborhood in g-strings and fornicate on the sidewalks while eating bacon, lobster and oyster sandwiches. (Hey, that only happened once ...and I was really wasted!)

The protests quickly subsided, but curiously these signs warning about "Skin Cancer" and the "Dangers of showing too much skin" started appearing around the neighborhood...

(The graffiti commentary was not mine.)