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Saturday, help de-tag the streets of Flatbush

Photo by Matt Karp. Some graffiti’s iconic—the stuff of Jonathan Lethem novels and arthouse documentaries—but some Brooklyn tags reach epic eyesore levels. The Flatbush Graffiti Clean Up Day is this...

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Bizarre Bazaar to take over abandoned daycare center Saturday [BrooklynBased] Don’t have a cow, man: food specials, free beer at vegan party tonight [Foodswings] Burlesque club to open in Red Hook?...

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Bushwick: Since three years ago

Oh crap, you guys: blog commenters have taken to the streets! Our friend Hannah Maxfield spotted this around N. 7th and Berry in Williamsburg yesterday. The tiny text on the bottle says “Triple...

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The most Bushwick passage in the most Bushwick story, ever

It only gets better from here. via The Brooklyn Paper Controversy in Bushwick usually sends reporters scurrying over here in search of ridiculous young people to talk to, in the hopes they’ll say...

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The 5 Pointz whitewash: One of the more depressing gestures of gentrification...

The whitewash in progress. via Instagram user joshiku Early Tuesday morning while most of us were sleeping, 5 Pointz, the vibrant Long Island City graffiti temple that welcomed 7 train riders to...

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Graffiti bombers hit new Bed-Stuy building with ‘Gentrify Here’ tag

If you lived here, you’d be gentrifying home by now Just in time for that whole “Bed-Stuy is the new Williamsburg” thing, Bed-Stuy is getting some fancy new apartments of its own, like the ones at 836...

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5 street art spots beyond 5 Pointz, in Brooklyn

5 Pointz is gone, but street art like this mural off the Classon Stop is still all over Brooklyn. Photo by Brittany Allen If you’re even a marginal fan of street art or have ever had cause to ride the...

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Tea Lounge patrons say goodbye with bathroom graffiti on final night

How meta! Photos by Vijith Assar Despite the fact that a couple of regulars are trying to make sure that the Tea Lounge goes on under a different name, the people who went to say goodbye to the Tea...

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Bushwick rocked by graffiti civil war

WAR! via Instagram user Zexo Bushwick might be hot enough to be the world’s seventh-coolest neighborhood, have shitty hotels “inspired” by it and get SNL and SantaCon to take a look at it, but that...

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The NYPD wants you to snitch on graffiti for $500. Would you do it?

Would your rather have this or $500? Via Flickr user carnagenyc. New York City is at its best when it’s unpredictable, which means the artistic side of it can assault you at any turn. You get on the...

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Gowanus graffiti perfectly trolls new luxury apartments

A photo posted by Monet Cruz (@lifeauthentica) on Oct 17, 2016 at 6:35pm PDT Sometimes you see some graffiti that’s just so … [Italian chef kiss] mwah.  It is easy to clown on people who move to...

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8 DIY ways to turn post-Trump hate graffiti into something positive

Turn anti-semitic graffiti into a discussion of 2002’s fine cinema. Left photo via QNS; right illustration by Chris Giganti. There’s no denying that for many of us the days since Nov. 8 have taken on a...

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