The Awesome Chalkboard Musings of a Jersey City Gym

Joe D'Allegro's copywriting will stop you in your tracks

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The humble sidewalk chalkboard—it's not the most heralded of advertising media. But Synergy Fitness Club in Jersey City, N.J., has elevated its chalkboard musings to an art form. For several years now, Joe D'Allegro—a freelance writer and comedy-show producer, who works part time at the gym—has been writing witty, topical and flat-out hilarious musings on the board for the amusement and edification of passersby, and secured some pretty good press for the business in the process.

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