As more and more iconic properties get gobbled up and regurgitated as condos, and street art gets more and more popular, the real estate and art industries continue to intersect and seem to be doing so more frequently. And they’re both ripe for affiliation. Savvy developers know that urban art can cheaply provide great cover […]
Alan, 190 Bowery. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
It official: 190 Bowery is available for rent. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Take an unauthorized tour inside 190 Bowery, the massive six story building on Bowery and Spring with all the graffiti in it. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A rare glimpse of the inside of 190 Bowery as workers on the outside started tearing down the street art earlier today. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Protests against a grand jury’s decision not to indict a Staten Island cop for putting Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold continued for a third night in New York and other cities. Despite the pouring rain, protesters marched through the streets and held a die-in at Apple’s flagship store in Manhattan. Garner’s mom, Gwen Carr, […]
Minneapolis street artist and yarn bomber Eric Rieger, aka Hot Tea, recently constructed a “non-destructive” installation at 190 Bowery — the address of the 72-room, graffiti-covered mansion that eccentric photographer Jay Maisel and his wife lived in for decades. It was recently purchased by a real estate developer and to Hot Tea, the property represents […]
The New York Post ran a cover story that purported to show a heroic Syrian boy saving a girl, but it was completely staged, continuing a proud tradition at the tabloid of running fake stories on its front pages. Brooklyn’s most expensive home is for sale and no one reading this site can afford it. […]
