“Everyone Can Hold Their Chin Up”

City Councilman Eric Gioia gets results:

The storage company that riled straphangers with its ads mocking the city’s boroughs outside Manhattan has agreed to pull its posters, though company officials insist they didn’t mean to offend anyone.

“If anything, our posters are meant to poke fun at the excessive prices of self-storage in Manhattan, and certainly not as a cultural critique of the outer boroughs,” an executive at Public Storage wrote in response to a stern letter from City Councilman Eric Gioia (D-Queens) last week calling for the ads to be removed.

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“We will take care to develop future advertising themes that are consistent with our commitment to the diversity of New York City,” [Public Storage senior vice president Mark Bilfield] said.

Gioia, who repeated his invitation to the company’s chief executive to tour the city with him, called it “a victory for everyone who’s proud to live in the five boroughs.”

“I’m very happy to see them taking down their ads,” Gioia said. “Everyone can hold their chin up. We stood up for ourselves and we won.”

Backstory: No Offense Taken . . .