Saturday's opening shots

Photos by Stacie Joy 

Here's a look at the new mural outside the Second Avenue F stop at Houston... the work by Doug Groupp (@clown_soldier2021) shows three ICE agents subduing the Statue of Liberty...

Monday's parting shot

An early morning look at the southwest corner of 11th Street at First Avenue... thanks to Jason Solarek for the photo!

The RBG mural by Elle Street Art went up here last November.

Fear factor

There's a new mural on the Bowery at East Houston... Pure Genius quoting a recent tweet by President Trump that undermined messages by public health officials and outraged relatives who lost loved ones to COVID-19...

Baby Yoda has left, but we have Princess Leia

The Baby Yoda mural's time has come to an end here at the Second Avenue F stop.

However, there is a Princess Leia wheatpaste courtesy of the Postman Collective as a consolation.



As for the new work here, Will Power, who created the Baby Yoda on Jan. 11-12, teamed up with Albertus Joseph for the mural, titled "Gritty City Style."

About the new mural outside Key Food

If you've been by (or to!) Key Food on Avenue A in the past month then you've likely seen the mural on the Fourth Street wall...



Artolution — "a community-based public art organization that seeks to ignite positive social change through collaborative art making" — is behind this project.

A group of young artists from Central America created the various characters seen on the mural.



The mural was officially unveiled on July 20... and here's what's next for the work...

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A sneak peek of today’s big reveal. Each of the individual characters were created by youth who escaped ongoing violence in Central American countries to find refuge in the United States. Their characters and the movements they developed with @kj3t will come to life later in August through Augmented Reality technology. Today the youth will present their mural and performances to the community! The youth are excited, the artists are excited - Let’s get this party started New York City! Join us at Avenue A & 4th Street at 5 PM. With @joelartista @theremustbemorelight @weareroyale @supportkind @styledwithsubstance @rhythmloverevolution #asylumseekers #immigrantart #communityart #youthempowerment #eastvillage #les #joelartista #mascaras #artolution #muralunveiling #performance #youthart #centroamerica

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Been waiting to get a photo of the completed work ... though there were always delivery trucks or cars parked on Fourth Street outside the grocery... finally got a shot...

Monday's parting shot

A look at the new mural by BKFoxx (via East Village Walls) on Fourth Street at First Avenue, the new home of the just-opened Wara, the Japanese izakaya and dinner theater.

A new mural to keep an eye on at Great Jones and the Bowery

A very early WIP here on the southwest corner of the Bowery and Great Jones... not sure who the artist is just yet... JR is the artist (H/T xOMars!)



Thanks to Lola Sáenz for the photos...

A new mural on St. Mark's Place

The van Gogh era has ended on St. Mark's Place ...

A new mural by arrived yesterday via Melbourne street artist Matt Adnate ...



The wall between Avenue A and First Avenue is maintained by the Bushwick Collective.

'Karma Police' at the Gatsby Hotel

The Gatsby Hotel on East Houston at Forsyth has a new mural to liven up its rather generic exterior ...



The piece is by Brooklyn-based Rubin415 and titled "Karma Police."

Here's a much better look at it...

My newly finished mural "Karma Police" on Lower East Side in Manhattan for @newallen_ny. Thanks to everybody who stopped by, @angelsereno91 for assisting me, @documentarygirl for the documentation. Also thanks to @karindumaire and @just_a_spectator today for helping me to shoot the mural and extra special thanks to @milanelman and @franconorhal for all their great work and for making this happen. #rubin415 #thenewallen #nyc #newyorkcity #newyork #lowereastside #eastvillage #gatsbyhotel #thegatsbyhotel #houstonstreet #easthouston #forsythstreet #minimal #copper #spraycanart #publicart #art

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Some love for the former Yaffa Cafe mural space

[Photo by Allen Semanco]

NYC street artist Hektad is creating one of his heart murals outside 97 St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue...

The wall space was home to the Yaffa Cafe mural for nearly 23 years. A worker painted over that back in May. The cafe closed for good after 31 years in September 2014.

A new restaurant, Taberna 97, will be opening here soon.

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And the finished mural...