New Riot Gates

Four short days after taking pictures of the street vendors who set up shop at the corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place, these riot gate installers installed riot gates in front of the former Chase Bank that stands there:

Installing riot gates.

Here is the new riot gate, fully installed — it blocks a lot of the graffiti!

Blocking the graffiti.

They even installed riot gates on the window:

Riot gates on the window.

These guys mean business!

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