During the summer, a Kenny Rodgers opened up on the west side of Broadway between 72nd and 71st Street in NYC. The sign was so bright that it disturbed an attorney, named Aaron Chess Lichtman, whose office was directly above the restaurant on the second floor.
Lichtman tried to get KR to take part of the sign down or to dim it. They refused, so he hung up a large hand printed sign in his window that said, "Bad Food." (It was too light to be seen from very far away, but if you knew it was there, you could read it from across the street.)
The local press and a few of the local news stations covered it after KR took Lichtman to court to get him to take the sign down. The court ruled that it Lichtman had a First Amendement right to keep the sign up. I saw both Lichtman and the KR manager interviewed on TV before the ruling.
The sign remained up for a few months after that, but hasn't been there since sometime in Sept/October. I guess they must have settled. I don't know what happened.
It was great to see two episodes based on real NY stories (Bad Chicken and the Soup Nazi) on the same night.