Tag: Little Italy
Adele Sarno, the 85-year-old woman who has lived at 187 Grand Street since 1962, has given up the fight against her landlord, the Italian-American Museum. She will be out of the apartment by June 30, the New York Times reports. Despite community support and attempts at intervention from housing rights activists, real estate development has […]
As the legend goes, in 1905, Italian immigrant Gennaro Lombardi opened America’s first place in Little Italy. To highlight this notable accomplishment and its 110-year history, the legendary pizzeria is selling small pies today for 5 cents a pop. It’s a great deal if you don’t mind waiting on a Cronut-like line. So ANIMAL went […]
Subway graffiti pioneers CRASH and DAZE have just finished their collaborative mural on Mulberry Street for the L.I.S.A. Project. Both started painting trains in the mid to late 70s and by the 80s, were part of a small handful of artists who were able to transition from transit property to the galleries. To this day, they […]
There’s a wall on Kenmare Street off Mulberry Street that’s so heavily bombed, it looks more like a section of the Berlin Wall in its last days than your typical NYC graffiti. The sheer amount of spray paint appears as if it took years to accumulate, with layers upon layers of tags and throw-ups applied […]
