Blade Signs in Brooklyn
Projecting blade signs perpendicular to your facade - the single best way to capture sidewalk traffic from down the block. Shaped and painted in our Brooklyn workshop, mounted across NYC.
Design your blade signWhy a blade sign earns its place
Storefront signs on the facade above your door read perfectly from across the street - but on busy Brooklyn sidewalks, half the foot traffic is walking parallel to your shop and never looks up. A blade sign perpendicular to the wall sits in their line of sight from a block away and pulls them through the door.
It is the single biggest upgrade most existing storefronts can make without redoing the main sign. Most of our blade-sign customers add one to a storefront that has been open for years.
Materials and finish
Standard blades are cut from aluminum composite (lightweight, paintable, weather-stable) with edge-mounted LED accent strips optional. Period storefronts in Park Slope, Cobble Hill or Brooklyn Heights often go with welded steel or solid wood for the look of a traditional pub or apothecary sign - those, plus hand-painted lettering and gold-leaf detail, are available on request: describe them in the order notes and we quote them after review.
For Landmarks districts we know which materials and bracket styles pass review, design your sign around them and supply the drawings and specs your filer submits with the LPC application - saves a month of back-and-forth.
Permits, install and bracket engineering
Projecting signs in NYC require a DOB permit (it is structural - the bracket loads the facade) plus a sidewalk-occupancy permit on install day. Landmarks districts add an LPC review. We do not file these permits ourselves yet (coming soon) - we provide the sign’s technical documents for your licensed filer and plan the install around your permit.
Bracket design is engineered for the wall material (brick, brownstone, terracotta, glass storefronts) and the sign size + weight. We never use anchor styles that compromise the facade or skip permit hardware.
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