Duelling Graffitiers

Lo, these seventeen days ago, I was walking across East 6th Street, approaching the local Dunkin' Donuts, on First Avenue, when I saw this bit of graffito:

Bit of graffito.

Well, duh — East Villagers don't need to be told how to spell NYC!

Because my blogging duties take me all over the East Village, I was not able to return to this site until nine days later, when this is the mess I beheld:

What a mess!

Here is what I think happened: One person, with a can of white spray paint, crossed out "NYC not NYU", then wrote "NYU is NYC", "Columbia is NYC", and "CUNY is NYC". Then, another person, with his own can of white spray paint, crossed out all of those and wrote "SMU is NYC". Then, as an afterthought, wrote "Sorry".

Why do I think that, you ask? Because the writing of the NYU, Columbia, and CUNY messages is the same; the SMU is different, it's doubled-up, and the "i" in "is" is lower-case.

East Village Today: a forensic blog if ever there was one!

#eastvillage #6thstreet #columbia #cuny #dunkindonuts #firstavenue #graffiti #nyc #nyu #smu

The Red Donut

It seems no one wanted the red donut:

Unwanted.

Such a shame.

#eastvillage #dunkindonuts #abandonedfood

Jewman

The East Village is full of graffiti — it's like modern-day cave drawings!

New graffitiers are always emerging. One of the most recent is Jewman, whose introduction I noticed while riding my Citibike across East 6th Street, just past the intersection with First Avenue, outside the beloved Dunkin' Donuts/Baskin Robbins amalgamation:

Jewman.

Welcome Jewman!

#eastvillage #baskinrobbins #dunkindonuts #firstavenue #graffiti #jewman

Thanksgiving Morning in Tompkins Square Park

A group of people and their cars were in Tompkins Square Park when I passed through this morning, setting up tables to feed people:

Inside the park, in larger context.

What are those boxes?

Donuts!

It looks like there's other stuff too, in hot trays.

Outside the park, on Avenue A, The Bowery Mission also had a table:

It's a bird! It's a plane! … It's a plane.

#eastvillage #bowerymission #tompkinssquarepark #dunkindonuts #avenuea

Signs Old and New

Above the Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin Robbins stores on East Houston Street is a sign sculpture:

Rooftop sign sculpture.

East Village artists love this juxtaposition of old and new, found and… unfound — any kind of juxtapositions!

#eastvillage #dunkindonuts #baskinrobbins #houstonstreet #artists #sculptures #signs