Tuesday, January 18, 2011

On Second Street, the 'Milky Way Dragon' disappears

I've been trying to figure out what has been happening here at 245 E. Second St. between Avenue B and Avenue C... In recent years, Allied Productions has been overseeing the mural project on the building's exterior ... the facade here has gone through several transformations the last 10 or so years ... most recently, artists Carlo Quispe and Laura Campos painted “Milky Way Dragon” on the wall here next to Le Petit Versailles Garden.




In recent weeks, workers boarded up part of the building... and painted over the mural...


Yesterday, I watched workers remove debris from the exterior of the building. A garbage truck was parked on East Houston.




However, there are no work permits on file for either 243 or 245 E. Second St. I'm waiting for someone affiliated with Allied Productions or Le Petit Versailles Garden to respond to e-mail queries.

More to come on what is happening here, I hope... Meanwhile, here's Grr's mural at 245 E. Second St. from 2002...

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4 comments:

  1. Bowery BoogieJanuary 18, 2011 at 11:00 AM

    Always a sad sight to see such artwork whitewashed.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 18, 2011 at 9:15 PM

    How do report work that happens without a work permit?

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  3. EV GrieveJanuary 18, 2011 at 9:34 PM

    311 is a good place to start...

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 20, 2011 at 3:48 AM

    I loved both those murals! Grrr's was especially elaborate, and though it got bombed, it was lovely. Not sure why they disappeared. Are there any images of the whitewashing? I blame the new apartments across the street. I guess they don't want to live in the East Village. These murals take me back to an earlier time, when such things weren't so rare, or perhaps as endangered. As for the un-permitted work: what is actually happening? Is there construction, or just removal of junk that was inside? I have not seen evidence of any construction.

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