Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Off the wall: Longtime 'Alphabet City' mural erased

After nearly 11 years as a colorful fixture on the southwest corner of Sixth Street and Avenue C, the "Alphabet City" mural is gone. 

A reader reports that on Monday, an anti-graffiti crew power-washed the artwork from the one-story RCN Cable building — a windowless structure as mysterious as it is nondescript. 

The creative mural of the alphabet letters was created by Brooklyn-based artists The Yok and Sheryo, who were then working for the Jersey City-based arts group Green Villain. 

It arrived in late 2014 (and with some controversy). 

Someone tagged the mural in August 2022 (it took eight years)... and it got worse from then on. 

Here in better days, via Carpe City...
We'll be curious to see what, if anything, shows up next.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Boo! That mural really tied that cinder block chunk structure together.

Anonymous said...

Boo hoo! I agree.

Anonymous said...

Totally….

Anonymous said...

That building structure reminds me of the old roller skating rinks from the 70's/80's.

Anonymous said...

Aww!! That mural was amazing! My daughter learned her ABC’s with that. I was sad when the graffiti started over it. Shit graffiti, not even cool stuff. Shame!!!