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And the band played on... At the Verizon wall early last evening on East 13th Street...

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East 13th Street today. Now all brown. Waving, not drowning.

Photo via evilnyc.

Previously.

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Just now.

It was all brown just a few days ago.

Photo by LIBERATION.

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Just noting that the 13th Street side of the Verizon building is now graffiti free.

The back-and-forth between graffiti/tags/whatever vs. brown wall has been going on a good two years...

Graffiti-free Verizon building lasts less than one week

Last Tuesday, evilnyc passed along photos of Graffiti Free NYC cleaning up the East 13th Street side of the Verizon building at Second Avenue...

evilnyc just sent this shot of that wall today...

Verizon's ongoing war on graffiti and stuff

Nearly eight months have passed since we last looked in on the ongoing brown-paint war at the Verizon building along 13th Street (at Second Avenue)... we thought that Verizon had simply given up.

Not so!

EV Grieve reader evilnyc just passed along these shots. A new tactic — powerwashing and painting via the city's Graffiti Free NYC...

To be continued...

Previously on EV Grieve:
First tag reappears on the Verizon building

Brownout: Verizon building graffiti painted over

Verizon is going to blow the budget on brown paint

Verizon preps wall for more tagging

The ongoing brown-paint war at the Verizon building along 13th Street (at Second Avenue) continues... here's how it looked earlier last week...

And after a paint job on Friday...

To be continued....

Previously.

[Thanks to Woodland Creature for the tip.]

Extending a welcome to Verizon on Avenue B

Something about Verizon is tag friendly apparently....

Watching Verizon lay some cable

From EV Grieve contributor Bobby Williams this afternoon on Avenue B between 10th Street and Ninth Street...

Verizon doesn't allow murals on its buildings — except for in Southern California

Earlier we posted an item about Verizon's ongoing battle with graffiti on their Second Avenue building... Perhaps a local artist like Chico could create a mural here? But! A Verizon spokesperson told DNAinfo, "We typically do not permit murals to be painted on our buildings" ... adding that the company will continue to paint over the graffiti as it goes up.

As EV Grieve reader T.E.V.B. pointed out in a Long Beach, Calif. newspaper... the article, titled Mural Brightens Verizon Wall, highlights the work of Long Beach-based muralist Roy Herweck.

Anyway, as for the Verizon wall on 13th Street, T.E.V.B. said, "A community mural there is a great idea."

[Image via]

Verizon brass content to keep battling graffiti artists on 13th Street

We've been documenting the battle for the brown wall here at the Verizon building on 13th Street at Second Avenue... (Previously.)

At DNAinfo, Patrick Hedlund checks in with the Verizon folks to see what the next steps are.

"We'll try to clean it off, and the next thing you know…" said Verizon employee Sam Ashraf, who manages the phone company's retail store in the building. "It just looks bad."

The NYPD's 9th Precinct has observed the building for years, even sending undercover officers to stake out the site and making numerous arrests, said Det. Jaime Hernandez, a 22-year-old veteran of the neighborhood.

To deal with the graffiti scourge, Hernandez suggested that Verizon bring in a muralist to paint the wall, noting that street art rarely gets run over by vandals because of the respect given to the work.

However, a Verizon spokesperson said that they don't allow murals to be painted on their buildings, and that they'd simply continue to paint over any new graffiti.

Sounds good coming from the company HQ. But what about the people on the ground here?

Ashraf told Hedlund that he's tired of seeing the eyesore each day on his way to work.

"It's miserable," he said. "But it's New York."

You can't keep a good wall brown

Just keeping tabs on the ongoing battle for the wall here at the Verizon building on 13th Street at Second Avenue... Previously.

Fresh tags (and Four Loko) on the Verizon building

Well, things have been quiet along the 13th Street wall of the Verizon building at Second Avenue ... until now... EV Grieve reader ~evilnyc passes along photos of fresh tags here...



In this photo, a fellow had passed out leaning against the wall... a precious can of Four Loko by his side...



Previously on EV Grieve:
First tag reappears on the Verizon building

Brownout: Verizon building graffiti painted over

Verizon is going to blow the budget on brown paint

How now brown, uh, wall?

And now Verizon has repainted the wall along 13th Street at Second Avenue for the umpteenth time in the last few months....




Any bets how long before it's tagged again?

Previously on EV Grieve:
First tag reappears on the Verizon building

Brownout: Verizon building graffiti painted over

Verizon is going to blow the budget on brown paint

On Thursday, we noted a Verizon working painting over a few tags on the 13th Street side of the Verison Building at Second Avenue...


[Photo courtesy of evilnyc]

...and just like that, the wall is full again...





Previously on EV Grieve:
First tag reappears on the Verizon building

Brownout: Verizon building graffiti painted over

Verizon fights back against cupcake graffiti

We've been documenting the back-and-forth with the brown paint alongside the Verizon building on 13th Street at Second Avenue.... these appeared the other today...



And, courtesy of EV Grieve reader evilnyc, we see that Verizon has quickly struck back today...




I have a feeling they're going to need a lot of brown paint.

Previously on EV Grieve:
First tag reappears on the Verizon building

Brownout: Verizon building graffiti painted over

Another brown out: Verizon battles graffiti artists, take two

Back in April, workers painted over all the delicious tags on the Verizon building on 13th Street and Second Avenue... Then, in May, there was an epic bout of tagging...

So, yesterday, Verizon once again had workers paint the 13th Street wall brown... and as these photos courtesy of EV Grieve reader evilnyc show, the brown paint was barely dry before the building was tagged again...






Previously on EV Grieve:
First tag reappears on the Verizon building

Brownout: Verizon building graffiti painted over

Yeah, we can hear you now, assholes

Many thanks to reader Empire for passing along these shots of a Verizon commercial being filmed right now on Seventh Street and Avenue A in front of the Yuca Bar.