In 2013 I ventured into Brooklyn and Queens to do street photography. The first photograph of the abandoned trolley car was shown at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition show in … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Graffiti
A Walk on Rivington Street
The Lower East Side of Manhattan is usually a lively neighborhood of young people, bars, restaurants, street art, and shopping. Not in 2020 in the midst of a pandemic, not even on the last Sunday before Christmas. Rivington Street was … Continue reading
Posted in 2020, Manhattan, New York
Tagged Economic distress, Graffiti, Lower East Side, murals, Pandemic, Rivington Street, Small business, Storefronts, street art
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Farewell to the Decade
Personal favorites from the past decade as we prepare to ring in 2020.
Posted in Maine, Manhattan, New York
Tagged Bernie Sanders, blizzard, Fifth Avenue, flowers, Graffiti, magnolias, Maine, marathon, murals, reflections, snow, Store Windows, street art, Subway, summer solstice, Union Square
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Goya in Williamsburg
Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga, reimagined on a Brooklyn door, tagged with graffiti.
Posted in Brooklyn, New York
Tagged Brooklyn, Graffiti, graffiti art, New York City, street art, street photography, Williamsburg
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5 Pointz Gone
This gallery contains 8 photos.
Last night, under cover of darkness, the owner of the warehouse that served as New York City’s unofficial museum of graffiti for years brought in a team of painters who covered all of the art with whitewash. The artists awoke … Continue reading
5 Pointz Revisited
The museum of aerosol art called 5 Pointz in Long Island City, Queens is officially doomed to be demolished in the name of redevelopment. Luxury apartment towers will go up in its place. With this in mind I revisited my … Continue reading
Posted in New York
Tagged 5 Pointz, aerosol art, Graffiti, Long Island City, New York City, Queens, street art, street murals
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Museum of Graffiti
5 Pointz Aerosol Art Center is a factory building in Queens where graffiti is memorialized, curated, produced, and endangered. For those who remember when the New York subways were coated with graffiti, mostly ugly and defacing but occasionally marvelous, it’s … Continue reading
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