(Even the construction barricades could not conceal it.)

One recent afternoon, bottled drinks were stacked in front of the newsstand, as well as a cluster of unused orange-and-white construction barricades.

Green Flanagan signs appeared on lampposts and construction barricades.

The construction barricades and torn pavement that were supposed to be temporary inconveniences when construction began in January 1995 have come to seem permanent.

Lately, huge construction barricades have been proliferating on all three main shopping levels.

On Avenue of the Americas, where the din of jackhammers and the sight of construction barricades have become a way of life, there is good news.

Business leaders and merchants complain that construction barricades have snarled traffic and hurt business.

(Just click on Road Trip Guide and then on the construction barricade in the upper right hand corner of the screen.)

They followed the route of the original protest, except now blocking traffic, and knocking over construction barricades.

Or with sidewalk scaffolds, construction barricades, telephone booths, awnings, subway entrances, bus-stop shelters, vending boxes and hot-dog stands ablaze with advertising?