This hotel and condo tower in the central Waikiki resort district, in Honolulu, looks like a classic piece of 1960’s…
Honolulu Graphica 01 – Tiger Stripe High
Snapped this shot of a huge, long mural of a tiger stripe motif on the exterior of a high school…
Truck Graf by “Gano” – Chinatown, New York City
Walking along Prince Street in SoHo, past the the cast-iron lofts buildings, this past Wednesday evening, we spotted a major…
Headache – Street Art by WK Interact, NYC
This is a classic piece of large-scale street art by New York artist WK Interact, whose work is drawn in…
Sticker Art – Ludlow Street Super Punk
We found this sticker on Ludlow Street in the Lower East Side about a week ago and couldn’t resist pulling…
Delancey Street Station Fish Mosaic
Delancey Street Station is one of the busier subway train junctions in New York City. Its location in the downtown…
New York Grafouts – Lower East Side 02
Another prime example of a “graf-out” on the Lower East Side of New York City. We love these things. The…
New York Grafouts – Lower East Side 01
Graf goes up, graf goes down. Or, rather, graf gets covered with a coat of paint. Often, that coat of…
East Broadway Paints, LES 02East Broadway Paints, LES 02
The signage is starting to fade atop this paint store on Essex St. off East Broadway in New York City,…
East Broadway Paints, LES 01
Another shot of a paint store front-signage on a Lower East Side block of lofts, tenements and warehouses in New…
Williamsburg Rock Mural
This huge mural in Williamsburg, in Brooklyn, “rocks the rockingest!” This well-executed work has the look of a magazine illustration…
Teriyaki Boy Front – New York City
The East Village in New York City could just as handily be called “Little Tokyo” or “Japan Town” given the…
Downtown Up – “Lier” on the Lower East Side
An up by “Lier” on the Lower East Side. This tag has edgier, geometric lines and less of the curvelinear…
“Snackbar” Logo – Logo Graphic NYC
A clever, “designy” (but not too designy) typographic treatment as logo for local eatery/catering company Snackbar on the side of…
Triple Threat – NYC Street Art Mash-up
Here we’ve got the work of several street artists and writers, including that of a couple of the underground’s brightest…
NYC Graf – “Core” in Chinatown
A nice close-up of an up on the side of a truck in Chinatown. Mid-sized freight trucks are everywhere in…
Steet Art Sticker – Paint Brush
We don’t know who the artist is behind this sticker of a dripping paint brush, which can be interpreted as…
Downtown NYC Graf – “Gucci” by Claw on Clinton St., LES
Every time we see an up by Claw, it’s a little different from every one we’ve seen before. The colors…
Street Art by Faile: “Michael” in SoHo
The artist(s) who goes by the name Faile is among the stars of the global street art underground. This artists…
View From AOL Time Warner Building
A view from the mezzanine inside the AOL Time Warner Building looking out through the huge glass front onto Columbus…
Wall of Java Tops at Ini Ani, LES 03
Another shot that shows the wall of coffee lids designed by architects Lewis Tsurumaki Lewisat at Ini Ani Espresso Bar…
Wall of Java Tops at Ini Ani, LES 02
Detail image of innovative interior decor feature at Ini Ani Espresso Bar in New York City. The wall pattern is…
Wall of Java Tops at Ini Ani, LES 01
One of our favorite cafes in the Lower East Side is Ini Ani Espresso Bar on Stanton St. The small…
East Village Up 1 – “Sasse”
Close-up shot of tag by “Sasse” in the East Village on future site of luxury condo development. Ivan Corsa Photo
East Village Up 2 – “Sasse”
“Sasse” is the name, “writin’” is the game. Nice, quick aerosol up in an empty lot with basketball backboard on…
Renovators’ Delight – Posted NYC Work Permits
In New York City, if you’re engaged in any kind of construction, whether putting up a new luxury condo or…
Subway Car Aesthetics
We like how the purple of the No. 7 Line circle/graphic symbol on the New York City subway system works…
Post-Modern Timekeeping on Wall Street
This series of numbered panes on the side of a Water St. office building is a clock. As a piece…
Corporate Cathedral of Banking – Citibank Building in Queens
When you see the high-rise Citibank Building in Long Island City, Queens, it looks clearly out of place among the…
Mad Ups – Graf All-Stars in East Village, New York
This image if a wall along 1rst St., between Bowery and 2nd Ave. in the East Village, really speaks for…
SSUR Plus Storefront – “Bruce Lee” Window
SSUR Plus is a select shop and exclusive, niche brand (along the lines of A Bathing Ape or Alife) of…
Architecture 101 – Tonic NYC
The soul of the New York City downtown music scene, Tonic is small venue housed in a simple one-storey warehouse…
Street Art – WK Interact “Boxer” Image on Lower East Side
The work of the artist WK Interact is some of the most easily recognizable of downtown New York City. The…
Kate Spade Treatment for Scaffolding
Popular purveyor of smart, classic handbags and accessories, Kate Spade has a massive and always busy store in the heart…
That Glass Staircase at the Apple Store SoHo
The glass-Plexi staircase at the center of the Apple Store, Soho, which we think is still one of the best…
Reppin’ Manhattan – Faces of the LES
Pictured above is one of two paneled murals depicting actual immigrants living in the Lower East Side or LES. (The…
Trophy Real Estate A-Go-Go – Perry Street Towers
Real estate is an obsession for most New Yorkers. Even those not actively in the land development game — most…
Call That Car Accident Attorney, Too!
We love the bold, yet weathered, exterior of this car body shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It certainly gets your attention…
Street Art Ups in NoLIta: Bäst, Blue Monster + Kinky Sticker
Several layers of Krylon ups on this NoLIta building have been cannibalized by several more layers of wheat-pasted street art…
Downtown Up: “Siker”
A well-executed and fully-realized aerosol throw-up by “Siker” on the rapidly gentrifying Lower East Side, where spacious, renovated million-dollar luxury…
Street Art for DUMBO Loft Dwellers 02
Contextual shot of DUMBO, Brooklyn street art on a renovated factory building that now has multi-million dollar condos and lofts…
Street Art for DUMBO Loft Dwellers 01
Found this beautiful pastel-colored and wheat-pasted banner artwork in DUMBO, Brooklyn on the sealed brick archway of a renovated factory…
Los Angeles Graphica 07: Space Invader Street Art
If you look closely you can see the Paris-based artist Invader’s signature “space invader” mosaic (inspired by the classic videogame…
Los Angeles Graphica 06: Space Invader Street Art
Well-known in the global street art underground, the French artist who goes by the name Invader has left his mark…
Los Angeles Graphica 05: “Locals Only” Surfer Graf, Topanga Beach Bench
There’s not much graf or street art in the beach hoods of SoCal. But this combo of surfer messages on…
Los Angeles Graphica 04: The Grove Movie Theater Architecture + Exterior
We revisit The Grove shopping complex in Los Angeles. There we find this example of retro-faux Hollywood art-deco architecture mixed…
Los Angeles Graphica 03: Von Dutch Store Facade + Logo, Santa Monica
In the previous post, we mentioned the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. Many of the stores here are the…
Los Angeles Graphica 02: Apple Store at The Grove
Almost every major city of the developed world seems to now have an Apple Store. Tokyo? Got one. New York?…
Los Angeles Graphica 01: Pink’s Hot Dog Stand Logo
The first of a series of graphica images from the City of Angels this past week show the logo painted…
A Bathing Ape 06: Shopper at BAPE Busy Work Shop
In this shot, a shopper in a hoodie checks out the freshest kicks at the A Bathing Ape store, Busy…
A Bathing Ape 05: More Interior and Staff at BAPE Busy Work Shop
Here’s another interior view from the front of the A Bathing Ape store, Busy Work Shop, in SoHo, New York…
A Bathing Ape 04: Interior at BAPE Busy Work Shop
Taking photos inside the new A Bathing Ape store, aka Busy Work Shop, in New York City is forbidden, as…
A Bathing Ape 03: Busy Work Shop Signage
The the signage at the new A Bathing Ape store consists of the brand name, logo and shop name etched…
A Bathing Ape 02: Busy Work Shop Storefront
This is a shot of the storefront for the new A Bathing Ape store in NYC. The store is called…
A Bathing Ape 01: Window Display Sneakers
In late December, with little discernible fanfare, the first ever official North American outpost of the exclusive, quasi-underground Japanese clothing…
Bleeding Like a Virgin Rambo
Two buildings on two corners at opposite ends of the same block along Spring St.–one at Elizabeth St., the other…
Tiger Jesus Stencil
What does a giant, ferocious feline and the Messiah have in common? Well, if you walk down Rivington St. (which…
Gusto on Rivington St., Lower East Side
This weighty tag on a storefront shutter on Rivngton St., between Bowery and Chrystie, has lost some of its luster,…
Bäst on Prince St., SoHo
One of our favorite New York City street artists is Bäst, whose work has been featured here before and will…
Blizzard Night on Houston St.
New York City is getting hit by it’s first full-bore blizzard of winter 2005. The temperature was about 20 degrees…
Electric Reindeer, East Village
Yet another image from the holiday season in the Village. (We promise, this is the last Christmas photo ever–or at…
Christmas Decor at Washington Square Park
The winter holidays are now a distant memory, but we had to post this image taken New Year’s Day 2005.…
Acupuncture Neon Sign, East Village
You see a lot English signs in downtown New York City in front of shops offering acupuncture, massage and East…
Guggenheim Museum Interior Spiral
This shot shows the spiral interior of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The iconic Upper East Side museum…
Faded Advertising of Old New York City
Classic faded ad from a long bygone era advertising on the side of a building in the udson Square area…
Celia Cruz Mural
Within a couple of days after salsa-music singing queen Celia Cruz passed away last year, this memorial mural went up…
Critter Characters
Like characters out of a children’s book, these illustrations of anthropomorphic animal characters look like they were drawn with a…
Source Graf, Lower East Side
For the graf writer, a clean storefront shutter is a tempting blank canvas just asking for Krylon. The shutters pictured…
Utada Hikaru Poster
On Rivington Street in lower Manhattan, we saw this advert promoting a new album release by Utada Hikaru, a major…
Barking Pink General
Snapped this fresh piece of street art pasted on a vertical I-beam on Spring Street near the southwest corner of…
Chinatown Graf
Walking towards SoHo along Grand Street through Chinatown, we spotted this piece of graf about a block or so west…
End of Summer Days
On West 4th Street in the West Village in an old and cozy 19th century shop space is “Snip and…
Light Beams at Ground Zero
Remembering the past. Looking southwest from the East Village, a view of the twin light beams memorial at Ground Zero,…
Freedom Tower at Ground Zero
Imagining the future. A scale architectural model of lower Manhattan that features the Freedom Tower and surrounding buildings as envisioned…
Pray for Pills + Genghis
The stencil is the massage. Here’s another one of those stenciled catchphrases you see around lower Manhattan. These slogans are…
125th Street, Harlem
Returning to Manhattan from upstate New York, we snapped this shot from a Hudson River Line train looking west over…
East Village Graf
It was a hot, muggy summer day in New York City. We were on our way cross-town to Pier 45…
Osaka: Apple Store
The innovative and design-savvy maker of the iPod and Macintosh, Apple Computer Inc., has been planting Apple Stores around the…
Collective Unconscious
Collective Unconscious occupied a small, ratty and bizarrely decorated retail space on Ludlow Street in the Lower East Side. The…
Seventies Sunglasses Girl
These black-and-white photos of a woman wearing large 1970’s-style sunglasses were pasted up on the side of a large building…
Graf by Skrew
“Can control” is a key among the graf writer’s skill set and can make all the difference between a messy…
Walking the Dog in Summer
Part chore, part pleasure, the act of taking your canine pet for a stroll in downtown New York is like…
Chatham Towers
Many of the residential buildings in Chinatown are old low-rise tenement buildings tightly crammed next each other along narrow traffic-choked…
Better Living Through Chemistry
This is a snapshot of a display window at a Chinese pharmacy (or “chemists,” as they say in London) in…
Hello! My Name Is Michael Caine
Michael Caine played secret agent Harry Palmer in a series of 1960’s spy movies, and in doing so created the…
Prepping Giants Stadium
The Meadowlands sport complex sits in East Rutherford, New Jersey, is home to several professional sports teams. At the heart…
LA: Airplane Logos
The Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, like at most major international airports, is a massive hub of diverse airlines…
Obey Giant: East Village
Shepard Fairey’s icon of André the Giant pops up on the streets in various forms: stickers, posters and stencils. Here’s…
Pet Rescue Logo
Walking around Tribeca, in New York City, recently, we spotted this intriguing graphic-logo on the black tinted window of a…
NYC: Foam and Futon
“Lowest prices in New York!” Since this image was snapped, Economy Foam & Futon Center in the Lower East Side…
LA: Capitol Rare 1 (1 of 2)
The address itself may not mean anything to most people or even to most residents of Hollywood, but 1750 Vine…
LA: Capitol Rare 2 (2 of 2)
The address itself may not mean anything to most people or even to most residents of Hollywood, but 1750 Vine…
Obey Giant
The face of the late great wrestling superstar André the Giant became an international underground icon in the 1990’s after…
The Met Museum Terrace
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is among the foremost collections of important art and antiquities in…
Genghis of Ludlow St.
The ruthless Mongol ruler and warrior Genghis Khan (c. 1162-1227) unified his people and created the world’s largest empire, which…
Bar Barramundi, New York CIty
The steel shutters in front of commercial spaces get battered over time by people and the elements. In New York…
Swoon: Kids Play 3 (3 of 3)
Swoon is a New York City street artist whose work is instantly recognizable to residents of certain neighborhoods of Lower…
Swoon: Kids Play 1 (1 of 3)
Swoon is a New York City street artist whose work is instantly recognizable to residents of certain neighborhoods of Lower…
Swoon: Kids Play 2 (2 of 3)
Swoon is a New York City street artist whose work is instantly recognizable to residents of certain neighborhoods of Lower…
Lolita Bras
Old urban centers in the United States are filled with small shops that do business for decades without ever giving…
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