It gives ownership to people who lack legal ownership over the dwellings and streets they inhabit! It says I’m here and this is my home ground. It also provides a creative and productive outlet for rebellion!
Feb 15, 2025
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what i do like about graffiti is how it can liven up an otherwise meaningless and unassuming building/area. there’s some tagging that is of course obnoxious and unnecessary but in some areas, it just shows you that there’s an ounce of culture/humanity in what would sometimes be just any other industrial area. i’m thinking of warehouses and industrial areas of los angeles that have some bold, colorful, and sometimes outlandish work that can be fun to admire. theres the infamous graffiti tower in downtown that was also cool af. it gives a lot of pop to our often very bland and grey scenescape. there’s definitely some skill here that i do NOT have and enjoy seeing it more often than not.
Feb 14, 2025
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[points at beautiful historic building the city govt has let fall to ruin] That’s Mine Now
Mar 28, 2025
This is cheating a little bit since I don’t live in NYC anymore but the ore freighter I do live in is not visitable.
I love this 500-square-inch piece of property like it is my own son. It dates to 1922, when a landlord by the name of David Hess had his apartment building eminent-domained by the city to expand 7th Ave., and only after bankrupting himself on legal options did he realize they had accidentally left him this pizza-slice of sidewalk. The city requested that he donate it and not only did he reject their offer to maintain his last shred of dignity but he installed this incredibly mean-spirited little mosaic that still sits outside of Village Cigars. I do not know how much longer it will last but, like many of my favorite pieces of architecture, it is a ridiculous monument to the vitriolic, impotent spite inherent in landlords the world over. God bless David Hess’s hateful little ass for this stupid thing.
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