Escape from "Oy Vey": Jewish Borough Gets Personalized Traffic Signs at 
Non-Jewish Taxpayers' Expense 
 
Demonstrating Jewish power in New York, Marty Markowitz, who is president of a 
Jewish borough (which seems to illegally discriminate against non-Jews by having 
a Jewish-only enclave) in Brooklyn, has often worked to promote Jewish 
interests.  
 
In 2004, he made his way to the Department of Transportation (DOT) and asked 
that they put up a sign that would signify when people drove out of the Jewish 
borough and say, "Oy Vey."  
 
After the DOT examined the issue, the DOT decided to toss aside legal rulings 
about discrimination and favoritism, and then further waste taxpayers' dollars 
by doing what Markowitz asked of them.  
 
Markowitz remarked that it was indeed a "Jewish expression" and that "the beauty 
is, every ethnic group knows it." 
 
He also told of how he has been instrumental to having other Jewish signs put up 
around town at taxpayers' expense, including one that said, "Not just a Borough, 
an Experience." 
 
In New York City, in what is commonly referred to as "Little Russia," a massive 
aluminum menorah about 12' high is embedded in concrete along the main street.  
 
It is believed that these acts are disregarded by the state as discrimination 
since they involve Jews, who are typically allowed special rights. 
 
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