East 11th Street and Avenue A at the week-old 7-Eleven. A more direct message than the last one.
[Photo via VH McKenzie]
Friday, November 8, 2013
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East 11th Street and Avenue A at the week-old 7-Eleven. A more direct message than the last one.
[Photo via VH McKenzie]
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Those walls are made of some weird gray plastic panels that barely stay attached to the building.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if those at the 7-11 mothership developed a material to clad their hideous stores to make cleaning graffiti a snap?
ReplyDeleteTrying to figure out if the author of the piece started making a second '7', and then tried to salvage it, or if he realized he made the '1' too small and added a basement extension.
ReplyDeleteSo there is 3rd grader going vandalizing a 7-11? with sharpie and no imagination for a lasting and stinging message? What's next wipe doggy doo doo on the building?
ReplyDelete@ JAZ- That kinda thing happens when you're out tagging while drunk.
ReplyDeleteBreakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Drunk
ReplyDeleteGUYS GUYS GUYS....IT'S A HYPHEN.
ReplyDelete7-11 should totally slime the perps with bright green slushies, motion-activated so if you paint the wall the slush comes down on you.
ReplyDeleteHalloween night I saw a family with their noses pressed to the window, reciting which slurpee flavors they are going to try next. Then, the mother said, "we live in a classy ghetto."
ReplyDeleteToday, In the span of 5 minutes... I saw 10 people causally walk in to this store like they have walked in 100 times knowing exactly what they were going to purchase. Why? Because they have been there 1000 times already and know what they are going to buy and spend before they even open the door. This is the reason why the "bodega" model may be sentimental in nyc however it is virtually non-existent in the rest of the nation. I guess this is one area the east village lags behind the rest of the country on trends. Some things I guess represent the greater good of things to come… despite the unwelcome signage of an internationally recognized brand
ReplyDeleteForgive me EV Reality, but yours is the weirdest comment ... it makes no sense whatsoever. You have actually stopped to observe people walking in to 7-11 with grim determination for a Slurpee, and watched people wander confusedly into bodegas not knowing what they want? This is complete bullshit. Everyone who shops in their local bodega (you seem to forget some of us actually live here) buys the same things over and over. So much so that Kalif (at my local bodega) knows what I'm going to ask for before I say anything. The whole point of a bodega is 24/7 staples: kitty litter, TP, beer, potato chips, milk, ice cream, newspapers -- my god, the entire essence of a bodega is knowing "exactly what you are going to purchase." I'm sorry to harsh on you but your comment is so powerfully nonsensical I'm now wondering what your motivation was in making it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the East Village "lags behind the the rest of the country on trends"? Trends like buying Slurpees and voting Republican? Are you a comedian or something?
Interesting. I also pitched a tent on the sidewalk outside 7-Eleven to study the locals in their natural environment and was amazed at what I saw! Let me refer to my log:
ReplyDeleteDay 5: Still no customers inside this 7-Eleven. The locals walk by and appear confused. They point, laugh, spit on it, scrawl indecipherable messages on it and shake their fists but there are no transactions. At one point the staff sees me peering at them with my binoculars and bang on the glass. I duck inside my tent and remain still, hoping to avoid further engagement. But it's too late. They douse my tent with gasoline and set it ablaze. As I run down the a Avenue partially burned they scream "freedom on speech bitch" while firing shots at me. Tomorrow I will seek higher ground.
This is why no one wants to be publicly associated with "No 7-Eleven."
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they put that horrible, unnecessary gray steel cage just to avoid permanent graffiti and acts of 'vandalism'. They didn't realize it's going to turn into a community chalkboard to blast 7/11 on a daily basis.
ReplyDeleteI think we are losing the argument here guys. If you are buying something like kitty litter at a tiny bodega you are probably getting price gouged. I think Kalif has some splainin to do. This movement is turning into a bowel movement
ReplyDeleteI pay $2 a bag for kitty litter at my bodega. Kitty litter is heavy and I don't feel like lugging it home from Associated several blocks away just to save ten cents a bag. I have a job. I can handle the price inflation. Thanks for your concern, though.
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ReplyDelete-Do you think our cause/movement could recruit a descent graffiti artist? Just saying they should use some colors .next time
Steve, you know quite well the No 7-Eleven group has nothing to do with this graffiti, or the previous nonsense scrawled on the building.
ReplyDeleteThis was addressed on the No 7-Eleven blog the other day:
"We are not responsible for spitting on windows or scrawling illegible graffiti on the building. Our rallies have always been peaceful, non-violent, non-destructive and will continue to be."
Your attempts to pin this on No 7-Eleven is just as pathetic as the time you tried to blame the smashed window at the 7-Eleven on St. marks on the group when it was made clear by the store a homeless mad had done it.
Nice try.
@Anon 2:07, shmnyc: Our group had nothing to do with this graffiti or the previous.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've seen when I have passed by (I walk by a few times a day), the local teenagers are in there and the local frat types are in there. Most of the time there aren't any customers. It's just the employees.
ReplyDeleteThe No7eleven people want you to believe that their main gripe is that they are human traffickers? GIve me a break aren't they pushing something that happened elsewhere a little desperately. Their is so much disarray in the overall message no? I can't keep track of the non-linear arguments. Is it the sugary food, the killing of bodegas, Westminster? Also that 7-11 is a magnet for crime? I think Tompkins Square Park is a much bigger crime magnet? Anyone else agree?
ReplyDeleteSo No-7Eleven…. are you saying if you HAD sanctioned or approved of destruction of property you would have admitted doing so? Why would you ever admit to a felony? Your lack of concern and poor attempt to distant yourself from the crime reveals your silent approval of said measures.
ReplyDeleteOk time for me to chime in re: 7 Eleven in the so-called "East Village":
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, if I'm given a choice to pay $1.09-1.29 for a roll of toilet tissue from 7 Eleven and $1.39-1.89 from a roll of toilet tissue from a bodega, a Korean deli, or any other independent grocery store, I'm choosing 7 Eleven because this city is expensive enough. I'm not further overpaying for something to pay someone else's high rent as I'm doing that already.
BTW bodegas are hotbeds for holdups and drug dealing and most certainly were well through the '90s. The less of them the better. The less Korean delis the better also as they consistently raise their prices over time. Price anything in a Korean deli and I bet you it will be at least a quarter more within six months. Also 7 Eleven doesn't charge what I call "overnight prices" like Korean delis do i.e. charge $2.50 for something that's $2 because it's 3:23am and chances are the purchaser is too tired and/or drunk to care and most likely isn't a regular customer. They are RELENTLESS with their price hikes. I mean I'm talking a nickel or dime every couple of months.
BTW why is 7 Eleven such a "blight" on New York but Starbucks and Subway are not? Where are the picketers in front of those three chains? Haven't they helped kill the mom-and-pop coffeeshop and deli? Yep. Why no picketers in front of McDonalds who pay most of their workers minimum wage yet rake in billions?
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Tsk tsk SMDH. Spreading misinformation once again. Negative attention is better than no attention with you.
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ReplyDeleteAll I said was that this is why no one wants to be associated publicly with your group.
Regarding the smashed window at the St Marks 7-Eleven, what they said was that it looked like a street person, not a homeless man. I rest my case.
Big Brother,
ReplyDeleteI read your clever comment and laughed out loud. Well done.
Non-linear? No, it's that 7-Eleven is doing SO much rotten stuff.
ReplyDeleteCan the two of you with the infantile rants against No 7-Eleven explain why you are for a 7-Eleven in the neighborhood? Curious.
ReplyDelete"what they said was that it looked like a street person, not a homeless man. I rest my case."
ReplyDeleteRest your case? What case??? lol What is the difference between a "street person" and a "homeless man"? Aren't they both without a home? Or are you suggesting street "person" in case the person may have been a woman? Is your "case" sexism? Or are you here to aggravate anyone willing to pay any attention to you? I believe it's the latter. Enjoy your case.
Are some of you people kidding? 7-11 is violating stop work orders left and right, cracking the walls of peoples apartments, putting huge air conditioning units outside people bedroom windows, all illegaly, their staff is terrorizing local business and you support that? You are defending them? Until a business does something like that to your apartment? Or harasses your favorite local business? Is Long Island too far for you to be concerned with human trafficking? You support human trafficking so long as its not in your backyard? Is that what you are saying? You people need your heads examined pronto!
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