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Neighborhood Opponents To Protest BillboardsBy Special to the Sun Upset with the construction of two large new billboards in the Meatpacking district, neighborhood opponents are ratcheting up pressure on an upscale Manhattan hotel that owns the land for the signs. 
Opponents say the signs, located on the Hotel Gansevoort's property on Hudson Street, detract from the neighborhood's historic character. The French bistro Pastis is refusing reservations from the hotel in protest, and members of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation plan to picket in front of the hotel entrance today. 
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