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I spotted this billboard for the Village Voice walking down Delancey Street, after finishing my walk over the Williamsburg Bridge (and no I don’t live in Williamsburg, so kiss my non-hipster boo-tay). I guess gentrificationville wouldn’t fit on the billboard (I’m talking to you Blue)!

Here are a few other snapshots from my morning commute over the Willy B.

I’ll sell you this pic for some magic beans (beans is slang for bags of money, with dollar signs on them)!

Revs and Peak still running!

This got me all excited, and then I found out it’s a band.

…and stay out!

Following the below post on 11 Spring Street, I felt it was necessary to put up this photograph of the building located just down the street. Right on the corner of Spring and Bowery sits another canvas of street artist and graffiti writers. While this building never reached the notoriety of 11 Spring Street, it’s walls have still been graced with the works of REVS, Judith Supine, WK, Shepard Fairey, the IRAK crew and many, many more. Now the majority of the building is covered in memorial graffiti for Joey Semz. Props.

It has been over a year now since NYC, nay the World lost one of the most valuable street art canvases ever to exist. For years 11 Spring Street was the equivalent of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with the works of modern day Michaelangelo’s gracing every inch of it. 11 Spring Street amplified the difference between graffiti and street art (because yes, there is a HUGE difference) and the battle and embracing between these two cultures. The walls were constantly changing and telling the stories of those putting their mark on them and tales of the city. The reason I am writing about 11 Spring so long after it has been covered in construction tarps and scaffolding, in the interim of being whitewashed and becoming multi-million dollar condo’s, is simple, I walked passed the decomposed shell of a building that was once a gorgeous piece of art, life and NYC and just missed it. This is yet another example of old and true NYC being phased out into anywhere U.S.A.

R.I.P. 11 Spring.

For more information and images check out these links:
Wooster Collective, Wooster On Spring, NY Times, Streetsy

Walking down Wooster Street, I decided to snap a new pic of the REVS & AMAZE roller tag on the side of this building. I know I have this image already some where in my collection of NYC photos, but why look when you can just retake the pic. Enjoy!

If you lived in NYC anytime during the early 1990’s you know REVS. Everywhere you went in the city you would see the infamous REVS wheat paste posters all over (usually with his partner in crime COST). Beyond the wheat paste posters REVS also painted giant tags 50 feet up on the sides of buildings and along highways. REVS created a new age of street art by taking his graffiti to the next level - a level that no one ever could have imagined. Continuing to expand as an artist and release the emotions we all hold inside, REVS went underground into the NYC Subway tunnels and began painting his diary. It seems that almost every tunnel has a page of the REVS story painted on its walls. These days REVS has taken his art even further and mostly legal by the way of sculpture. REVS has created hundreds of metal sculptures that he has (with permission, well mostly) bolted, welded and cemented all over the city. What makes REVS truly special, and the definition of a true artist, is that he doesn’t sell his work. REVS work has always been and is still free for the world to see - just walk around the city and there he is. The man himself said it best: “once money changes hands for art, it becomes a fraudulent activity.” - WELL SAID!

Read a rare interview with REVS in the NY Times.
See images of REVS work at saster.net and robotswillkill.com