Real Or Urban Legend ??

I am trying hard to confirm or disprove this little nugget...

"We hate Bush too," declares a poster from the new campaign promoting tourism to New York City, and which will soon be on display in Venezuela. To the Italians, New Yorkers say that they like football [soccer] too. To visitors from Singapore, they promise garbage, chewing gum and gay sex [outlawed in Singapore ]. The objective, into which the New York City Council will invest $15 million this year, is to reach an annual 50 million tourists by 2015 - six million more than in 2006. The creators of the campaign confirm that they intend to break New York of three bothersome stereotypes: that it's an expensive city, that New Yorkers are disagreeable and that crime abounds there.