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The last thing this town needs is more intrusive advertising.  It’s bad enough with the stacks of unwanted delivery menus, obnoxious DirecTV doormats, and unavoidable pavement stencils.  Well, soon we may need to contend with something conceivably more annoying.  Backpack billboards.  Such back-vertising if you will, threatens to crowd the already over-saturated sidewalks. Nevertheless, some [...]

Last night, this talented bucket drummer was tearing it up at the southwest corner of Houston and Broadway.  Dude, you’re totally in the band! Enough said.

In this phonebooth billboard, Duane Reade comments on its own saturation of Manhattan.  While it might be the one place even tourists can find, it is also one place locals tend to despise.  Indeed, the last thing we need is more of this homogeneity gobbling up storefronts. Spotted just below the drab Hollister mural.

In 1993, Digable Planets released the smooth bass-driven track “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat).” The opening of the music video shows the group walking the streets of SoHo, and includes a brief shout-out to 578 Broadway (corner of Prince).

When we revisited the DKNY Hollister mural last night, there was already headway on the new design. Seems pretty bland. UPDATE: photo of more progress this morning. Related Reading:Hollister Poised to Paint [Bowery Boogie]