Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

That’s right, the infamous Calvin Klein space situated atop Win Restaurant Supplies on East Houston is devoid of any sex.  The new banner features no oiled up models, Eva Mendes, nudity, or orgies.  Just a good old-fashioned QR code.  Quite the departure.

Sex and the City.  The sequel.  It’s unavoidable now.  That bane of a franchise continues its nascent quest to conquer every piece of ad space, rivaling only the iPad in scope.  Some of the larger building facade billboards in the neighborhood have recently surrendered.

Calvin Klein just swapped its banner advertisement at the corner of Houston and Lafayette. Instead of gratuitous sex poses, we have Kellan Lutz showing off his bulging junk.

Judging by the notorious ad space above the corner of Houston and Lafayette, 2009 was no doubt a busy year for Calvin Klein. Their scintillating banners, featuring steamy sex romps and orgies, hit both the local and national news wires by force. But before any of that, it was a story covered by the hyper-local [...]

Calvin Klein follows up its series of racy advertising above East Houston with another Eva Mendes sweaty sex scene. The prior billboard banner was in place for much of November.

The junction of Allen and East Houston.  For a brief period, it was the quintessential intersection of sex, thanks to a run of scandalous American Apparel ads [Camera 1 and Camera 2]. That distinguished title was forfeited, however, when the ad space disintegrated in September of last year and was never re-activated.  Then Calvin Klein [...]