Appeared in The New York Times and on the paper's City Room blog. Photo by Eric Bishop.
Robert Keith doesn’t tweet. He doesn’t blog. He doesn’t post comments on Web articles.
Instead, Mr. Keith, 75, states his opinions to the world by way of a distinctly lo-fi medium: the window poster. Every couple of weeks, he props two professionally made signs in his first-floor windows, usually to express his populist outrage at the controversy of the day. Subjects of his contempt have included credit default swaps, auto bailouts and even capitalism itself.
“I’m trying to puncture some of these conventional wisdoms out there,” Mr. Keith said in an interview, gesturing to the street outside his home in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. “I’m a gadfly, really.”
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