Monday, August 11, 2025

Taggers target white-box storefronts on Avenue B

Earlier this year, workers gutted the storefronts at 106 Avenue B between Sixth Street and Seventh Street ... now available for rent in white-box condition. 

The other night, multiple people tagged the storefronts...
... including the interior of the space to the north...
There wasn't any sign of forced entry, so some people think the door was left unlocked. 

The northern storefront was previously Anwar/Akter Grocery, which sold a wide range of items, including sodas, snacks, religious amulets, sombreros, school supplies, and hardcore adult DVDs with titles like "Anal Pleasures." 

The grocery suffered an unceremonious ending in July 2022

In the photos below from the spring by Stacie Joy, you can see the extent of the interior gutting...

2 comments:

Sleepless in EV said...

The graffiti vandalism is reaching epidemic proportions here in the EV. These creeps deface anything and everything. With all the video surveillance these days, you'd think that some of them would be caught. Sure would be nice not to see this garbage on every building and window.

Cara said...

Hmm it’s almost like they should lease commercial space at prices they can get instead of letting them sit vacant and asking an outrageous rate