Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Diesel’s latest ad campaign continues to ruffle feathers around town. Especially in the West 4th subway station, where efforts to sabotage their “Be Stupid” promos have transpired for weeks.

The Palazzo Grey at 334 Grand Street is now marked with its first official graffito.  In recent days, a street writer tagged the west-facing facade of the nascent luxury building-cum-Subway food court.

[Photo via emahnsworld]

Saturday night, just past 2 am, we witnessed a youngster spray-painting his tag above the 2nd Avenue subway entrance on East Houston.  A few of his buddies were on lookout duty in the street and on the sidewalk.  Bar-goers and drunken revelers just went about their business.

Now that another portion of the street-level work on the $96 million mega-station project is complete, some road repair seems next on the agenda.  Indeed, for the past few weeks, crews of construction workers have been filling in the deep pit outside the Puck Building on East Houston.  Steel supports run the length of the [...]