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Photo by Bobby Williams]
If you've been over on the southwest corner of Avenue C and East Sixth Street in the last week or so, then you've likely seen the new mural in progress on the (rather mysterious) RCN Cable building.
The mural, called "Alphabet City," is the work of Brooklyn-based artists The Yok and Sheryo who work for the Jersey City-based arts group Green Villain.
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Photo last week by Magic Brian]
All this has arrived with controversy, according to
The Villager:
Is RCN whitewashing Loisaida culture and history? Celebrated street artist Antonio "Chico" Garcia and the community group Loisaida Inc. are crying foul after the company nixed their plan to create a mural celebrating L.E.S. “heroes” on the RCN cable building on Avenue C.
Apparently RCN officials are still pissed at Chico for his unauthorized Obama-McCain murals back in 2008. (RCN finally had
them painted over in 2010.)
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EVG photo from 2008]
Elizabeth Colon, a founder of Loisaida Inc., told
The Villager, "Is that what they think the community is, ‘A, B, C, D’? When we were talking about representing 50 or 60 years of Lower East Side history?"
You can read the rest of
The Villager piece
here.
And here was how the RCN wall was looking back in the summer…
Previously on EV Grieve:
RCN Cable discovers 'illegal graffiti' two years later
