Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

After a ten-day run, Calvin Klein’s high-tech QR code experiment above the intersection of East Houston and Lafayette has come to an end.  It’s back to selling sex.

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.

The leather-and-latex fetish shop Demask is the latest victim in a string of recent Orchard Street closures.  Its R-rated window displays, forever wrought with half-naked mannequins in bondage poses, are all gone.  The entire store has been stripped, and there is now a fresh scaffolding in place.

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 [...]