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'Hot Chicks Room' Sign Donated to Governors Island Composters

A sign outside the forthcoming Upright Citizens Brigade theater on Avenue A near East 3rd Street boasted of a
A sign outside the forthcoming Upright Citizens Brigade theater on Avenue A near East 3rd Street boasted of a "Hot Chicks Room."
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By Michael Ventura

DNAinfo Managing Editor

EAST VILLAGE — The "Hot Chicks Room" sign that adorned an East Village theater and irked locals has a new home on Governors Island.

The sign  was taken down from the facade at the new theater at at 42 Avenue A for the Upright Citizens Brigade on Friday and turned over to Earth Matter, a composting company, in an impromptu ceremony that featured UCB founding member and "Saturday Night: Live" alum Amy Poehler, the New York Times reported.

The new Hot Chicks Room will be a learning center at the Governors Island location for Earth Matter that will feature a greenhouse where baby chickens reside, the paper said. The chickens will teach visitors about waste and also create fertile soil for the island, the Times reported.

Amy Pohler arrives to the 2011 Writers Guild Awards on February 5, 2011 in Hollywood, California.
Amy Pohler arrives to the 2011 Writers Guild Awards on February 5, 2011 in Hollywood, California.
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Earth Matter is a "a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the art, science, and application of composting in and around New York City," according to its website.

The sign had caused an uproar among some locals in recent weeks, as DNAinfo first reported. Community Board 3 district manager Susan Stetzer had said the sign conjured images of "1970s Times Square." Other neighbors found it "inappropriate and repulsive."

Instead of heralding something untoward, the sign was actually a reference to a 2006 skit by the Upright Citizens Brigade that featured Poehler, who acknowledged Friday that the sign was being removed to soothe the locals.

"We knew we were entering a new neighborhood, and we want to be respectful, always, to our neighbors," Poehler told the Times. "We wanted to appease — to show that there are different ways of entertaiment that don't have to be sleezy."