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Tats Cru Tapped For Bowery Mural Wall
Last modified January 16, 2019 at 5:43 pm
At the Bowery Mural Wall it’s one icon after another. The slate was wiped clean, so to speak, late last week. Gone is JR’s anti-gun proclamation, just in time to make way for Tats Cru. The legendary outfit teamed up with Crash One for the effort, which began at the wall yesterday with the outlining. […]
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An Elon Musk Space on Rivington Street?
Posted December 14, 2018 at 5:02 am
Until 106 Rivington Street fulfills its destiny as the next Hell Square nightspot, this. A tunnel construction company? A tipster was out front last night and snapped a few photos before security stepped in. Below a “boring” neon sign, the sparse space is occupied by something called The Boring New York Company. There is a […]
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Cristin Tierney Gallery Takes Space on the Bowery
Posted December 13, 2018 at 5:03 am
The decade-running trend of Chelsea gallery refugees quartering on the Lower East Side continues with news of another. The Cristin Tierney gallery just signed a lease to take over 219 Bowery. It sits one store south of the Camper Lab concept shop, both of which formerly comprised the Chair Up restaurant supplier. Tierney, who had […]
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Talking ‘Velvet Underground Experience’ and Tales of Lou Reed
Last modified December 4, 2018 at 11:40 am
The Velvet Underground’s first ever gig was at a high school in Summit, New Jersey, opening for 1960s garage band, The Myddle Class. Soon after the Velvets started their three-song set (and, yes, that included the song “Heroin”), most of the students walked out. Within one year, they had Andy Warhol as manager and were […]
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Anti-Amazon Mural Painted in ‘Prime’ Ludlow Street Lot
Posted November 26, 2018 at 5:03 am
Today, on the occasion of Cyber Monday, it’s worth strolling past the vacant lot at 159 Ludlow Street. It is here – this prime location – that area artist Adrian Wilson has painted another timely mural. This go-round, it’s a mural against Amazon, represented by an upside-down parcel with branded logo, forming a frown face. […]
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Anti-Amazon Stickers Slapped on Subway Etiquette Signs
Posted November 19, 2018 at 5:08 am
Anti-Amazon attitude is at a fever pitch barely a week after the online retail conglomerate announced that half its second headquarters (HQ2) would be situated in Long Island City. Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, and real estate speculators are all equally salivating over the deal, which will see an influx of 25,000 employees and create […]
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Supreme Angers by Defacing Street Art with ‘Blessed’ Flyposting
Posted November 13, 2018 at 5:07 am
Call it supreme street drama. Skatewear brand Supreme upset at least one street artist over the weekend by spreading its flyer campaign across every surface of the Lower East Side. Among others, the handbills, which advertise the new “Blessed” skate video, were wheat-pasted along the facade of 26 First Avenue. The landlord had reportedly commissioned […]
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At the Bowery Wall, 11 Becomes 12 in Memory of Thousand Oaks Shooting Victims
Last modified November 9, 2018 at 7:07 am
The Bowery Mural Wall is becoming a de facto memorial for victims in recent shooting sprees. Indeed, since street artist JR put up his anti-gun piece last month – in conjunction with TIME magazine, there have been two such national tragedies. Following the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooting, considered the deadliest attack on Jews […]
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You Have Until Saturday to See ‘The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini’
Posted November 5, 2018 at 5:09 am
You had us at Houdini. Throw in a séance, a water tank, and a disputed death, and we were completely hooked. We were already longtime fans of artist, writer and producer Cynthia von Buhler’s work (The Speakeasy Dollhouse: The Bloody Beginning, The Brothers Booth, The Illuminati Ball), so when we heard that her latest immersive […]
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When Spider-Man Reaches Bowery and Delancey
Posted November 5, 2018 at 5:08 am
Even Spider-Man is on the Bowery these days. One reader spent time wandering the open world of the new comic book video game and found the intersection of Bowery and Delancey. Yet, it’s in name only. The commercial buildings in the scene do not represent reality. The above is an in-game selfie of the spot. […]
