I know I’m always going on about how awesome layers are and how much I love Brooklyn because of this…layers of paint on walls, graffiti done and redone and redone again, etc. An old poster on top of a new one. But this particular layer I just saw a few minutes ago made me throw up in my mouth a little.
Some of my favorite graffiti in all of New York just happens to be on the outside of the building I live in…it starts at the Roebling Tea Room and goes around Metropolitan to the Roebling side. Many different artists contributed to making that corner completely amazing and famous. It’s now been covered up with beige on one side and mauve on the other. The manager at the restaurant on the corner of Hope and Roebling seems to think that they’ll make more money if they remove the graffiti from their building. But what they don’t seem to realize is that their joint is empty because it has lousy food and worse decor. Now they don’t even have a cool exterior.
This building is FAMOUS for its graffiti. In fact it was a main reason I wanted to live in that building. I just can’t believe it. And I had to vent. So uh…thanks for listening. And here are a couple pics of art that you will never see there again…
that bastard. God to know the food sucks there, since I wondered why no one was going into that place.
Nice shot of the building, bty.
Yeah I didn’t actually take that shot, I just ripped it from flickr. It IS nice, isn’t it? Yeah I think that place is a front for money laundering or something dark. I always get creeped out by it. I wasn’t going to eat there anyway, but now I’m DEFINITELY not going to. That place is on my permanent black list.