What's that graffiti on the West Houston Starbucks branch mean?

And on the wall of Starbucks on West Houston near West Broadway Sunday afternoon...



Who knows? I always assume it's something lame like 'guerilla marketing' for a new TV show...

Mysteries of our time — solved!

I like Colin Moynihan's piece in the Times today about Momo's 8-mile-long tag throughout the city... You've seen it...And probably already knew who was responsible for it.... I didn't realize it was such a mystery. Still, a good recap. Per the article:

Although it has existed for four years, the paint line has escaped most people’s notice. And among those who have paused to register its presence, few have probably spent much time contemplating its origin. It is, after all, just a simple bit of paint: one more arcane marking in an urban landscape filled with street art and random splashings; a small-caliber mystery in a big city rich with secrets.

“The orange drip that flows through the East Village,” Sharon Jane Smith, 57, mused on Sunday as she gazed at the section of the line that meandered past her East Village shop, A Repeat Performance, on First Avenue near East 10th Street. “I have no idea where that orange drip came from."

Best Roof Talk Ever has more on Momo here.

And here is the video Momo made about the project...

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

Osment!

Avenue A near 14th Street.

Previously.

A little respect

Second Street and Avenue B.

What about Bob?

This tag has appeared in recent days around the neighborhood ... any ideas?




Google wasn't so helpful.

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

New Cooper Square Hotel fence tagged

On Wednesday, workers finished putting in the Popsicle fence at the Cooper Square Hotel... a tempting canvas for street artists... and sure enough, in what will be the first of many, I imagine... someone tagged the fence last night... and thanks to EV Grieve reader Ryan for snapping this shot early this morning of the Cooper Square Hotel Anti-Graffiti Team going into action...



I took this shot a little later...




...and just up the way at the new Cooper Union academic building...



Anyway, why did the Coop Hotel clean the tag? I thought they wanted to "fit in with the edgy local art scene?"

Shepard Fairey's mural tagged and cleaned and tagged again ... again

I can't even keep track of this anymore... the tags are cleaned off, only to return bigger and better...

Read the previous Shep coverage here.

Graceland's graffiti is going, going...

I mentioned this a few weeks ago... better check out the remaining tags at the former Graceland space on Avenue A and Second Street sooner rather than later ... workers were starting to scrub down down the building yesterday afternoon...




Previously on EV Grieve:
Appreciating Graceland's graffiti

Mr. Brainwash gives Shepard Fairey some love

But first... As I pointed out on Saturday, Shepard Fairey's Bowery-Houston mural got hit pretty hard ...



Now, it looks as if someone is making some progress cleaning off the mural...




...while Banksy Mr. Brainwash checks in next door....




Previously on EV Grieve:
Historic bombing on the Shepard Fairey mural

How was your weekend Shepard Fairey mural?

Just a recap...

Before!


Saturday morning!


Plus!
Paul Richard puts up a larger sign on Shepard Fairey's mural

Is the Shepard Fairey mural snatching babies now?

Previously on EV Grieve:
Historic bombing on the Shepard Fairey mural

Historic bombing on the Shepard Fairey mural

Epic.







Jeremiah has the history of the wall here ... he also posted the first reports of the mural being defaced back in April...

Busy night outside the Verizon building: The tags are back

About six weeks ago, workers painted over all the tags on 13th Street side of the Verizon building...



However! Thanks to EV Grieve reader evilnyc for these shots of some epic tagging last night...







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

Brownout: Verizon building graffiti painted over

A colorful tag for Cooper Union

Or maybe it's a math problem...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Welcome to the neighborhood!: First tag spotted on the new Cooper Union Building

Verizon Building getting back to normal

EV Grieve reader Kim is keeping tabs on the return of the tags to the Verizon Building on 13th Street as seen in her photo below...



I took a few shots myself...




As did Woodland Creature.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Brownout: Verizon building graffiti painted over

One year later, Kurve/Rhong Tiam East decides to paint over the tags

The first tag appeared on the Fifth Street side of Kurve last April... since then, a few more have been added... and it looked like this...



Now, though, the paint came out...