Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

What a difference little more than a week can make in the life of the Shepard Fairey mural at the corner of Bowery and East Houston. Nearly all of the lower-level paneling has been torn away, uncovering a larger swath of the Os Gemeos artwork currently behind bars. The street has spoken. Where is the [...]

Time for another weekly progress report on the graffiti wall.  Nearly two months to the day after Shepard Fairey unveiled his mural at the corner of Bowery and East Houston, its base is completely mangled.

At waist-height, these neighborhood Great Danes are quite the moving spectacle.  Whenever the dog-walker is out and about with them, sidewalkers stare with awe.  And not without cause – these pets are friggin’ ginormous.

Judging by the recent uptick in graffiti tags and spiteful kickholes, it seems the neighborhood has had enough of the Shepard Fairey installation at the corner of Bowery and East Houston.  Perhaps it’s time to tear down the wall, as Pink Floyd would say, and bring back the Os Gemeos mural.

Within the last 48 hours, the Shepard Fairey mural at the corner of Bowery and East Houston was the lucky recipient of four large puncture wounds (plus, a tiny one for good luck).  And these holes are epic.

The Shepard Fairey surveillance and cleanup team seems to have given up.  Rogue stickers and graffiti remain.  And now there’s yet another kick-hole with which to contend.