Monthly Archives: April 2009

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New York City street art: Another view of the “FF.”

FF

New York City street art: “FF” tape on a sidewalk at the northwest corner of Bowery and Houston Street, NYC.

Sublime

Love this.

In Situ

Street art New York City: Wood-cut design wheatpaste street art.

Wood-Cut

Street art New York City: Black-and-white, woodcut-style wheatpaste street art, downtown Manhattan.

Crazy Handgun Guy

Street art New York City: Wheatpaste street art of crazed dude with pistol in downtown Manhattan.

Mad Pistol Dude

Street art New York City: Wheatpaste street art of crazed dude with pistol in downtown Manhattan.

Gunman

Street art New York City: Close-up of wheatpaste street art in a doorway on Allen Street, between Delancey and Rivington streets, NYC.

Allen Street Life-Size

Street art New York City: Life-size wheatpaste on Allen Street, Lower East Side.

Accident at 5 Pointz

A set of stairs collapsed and seriously injured one person on April 10 at “5 Pointz,” the graffiti-covered building complex in Long Island City, Queens that has become a world-famous mecca for all types of artists, street-art fans, tourists and photographers. As a landmark, 5 Pointz is best known for the graffiti art that seems to cover almost every available square inch its walls.

Nicole Gagne, the woman injure din the accident, is one of approximately 200 hundred artists who rent studio space in the 5 Pointz building and form a community. The building has since been closed to the public while the owner makes renovations to the structure to bring it up to code.

Photo attribution: otherthings

Street Art Locations, Downtown NYC

A handy little Google Map we’ve created that shows some of the current (as of this post), popular, and well-tread spots where repeatedly we see a lot of new street art in downtown New York City.

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Lafayette Street

Street art New York City: Lafayette Street All-Stars — Gaia (?), KH, Blue Monster, Incision Microcosm, etc. — on Lafayette between Broome and Kenmare in SoHo. This spot is a well-tread location for street art. See the Google Maps Street View below; this street art spot is behind the white van in the Street View photo.

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Girl and Monster

Street art New York City: Girl and Blue Monster.

Blue Monster

Street art New York City: Blue monster in SoHo.

Girl Close-Up

Street art New York City: Illustration wheatpaste of girl by Gaia (?) on Lafayette Street, NYC.

Reebok Pop-Up Store

Street art New York City: Reebok pop-up store on the Bowery, Chinatown.

Lower East Side Masterpiece, Vol. 2

Street art New York City: Here’s Vol. 2 images set of the awesome street art work on Houston Street, in New York’s LES. Love this stuff.

Lower East Side Masterpiece, Vol. 1

Street art New York City: Epic masterpiece of street art painting along the full-length frontage of a building on Houston Street, east of between Suffolk and Norfolk streets, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Included below is a Google street view image of what the building used to look like in the recent past, before the current street art work was created.

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Trice

Street art New York City: Trice on Prince Street, SoHo.

KH Paint in SoHo

Street art New York City: KH paint layers in SoHo.

Bicycle Shrine

Another one of those beautiful and sad bicycle shrines set up where someone died after being hit by a car in downtown Manhattan. This bike is on the south side of Houston Street between Essex and Norfolk streets.

Colossal Sandwich

Massive “Colossal” mural of giant sandwich, next to the parking lot at Crosby and Broome streets, SoHo.

Bomb Stencil

New York Street Art: Bomb stencil street art by Fitschen, downtown Manhattan.

Fitschen Dollar Sign

New York Street Art: Pix of fresh Fitschen dollar-sign stencil street art, Crosby Street, NYC.

Viking

New York Street Art: Viking sticker street art.

Mattel Slut

New York Street Art: Wheat-paste street art by Matt Siren on Crosby Street, near Broome Street, downtown Manhattan. Love the use of the Mattel toy company logo.

Red Nose

New York Street Art: “Red Nose,” a comical dog illustration (by Tazz?) as sticker street art (the sticker is actually a US Postal Service adhesive label that’s been re-purposed as a canvas).

Haculla John Lennon

New York Street Art: Fresh wheat-paste street art by Haculla on the Meisel Building in Nolita (on Spring Street, between Bowery and Elizabeth Street).