Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

With winter now upon us, it’s time to revive our on-again-off-again street steam series.  On a recent Sunday night, two Con Edison workers were conducting some sewer maintenance outside the stalled construction site at 324-326 Grand Street.  Aside from their bulky equipment, the street was rather empty; not many people were on the sidewalks.  The [...]

It was only a matter of time before all the neighborhood filming for USA Networks’ White Collar finally premiered on the small screen. Episode number six (“All In”), which aired this past Friday, was focused in “the seedy underbelly of New York’s Chinatown.”  The protagonists are in pursuit of villains through their high-stakes games of Pai [...]

Like a proper scavenger hunt, we’ve been on the prowl for the other half of the Obey Giant wheat-paste first spotted on Grand Street last week.  Well, it’s now accounted for – glued to the north-facing facade of 143 Ludlow.  Rest easy, folks.  Order has been restored in the universe.

Half an Obey Giant surfaced on Grand Street the other day, glued to the splintered plywood of 324-326 Grand Street.  Behind the artwork, the stalled construction site remains little more than a slab of eroding concrete.  So much for a the luxury condos (eighteen stories) and swank hotel (seven stories). Meanwhile, around the corner on [...]

Since being pasted to a section of Bowery plywood north of Kenmare, the enormous Obey Giant has attracted some hateful graffiti. In addition to the more obvious Peru Ana Ana Peru pair of tags, there is also a wonderfully pointed passage lambasting Shepard Fairey.  It reads, “Suck a dick Shepard.  Get an original idea.”  There [...]

Shepard Fairey’s iconic art is making another bold statement on the Bowery.  A life-size Obey Giant poster is pasted to the plywood of 196 Bowery, just north of Delancey.  This exact spot seems to be quite popular for the classic image, as it was also hit with a series of smaller bills back in January.