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Union Square Clock, Solved, originally uploaded by plemeljr
Just to let the record stand, we were right (thanks to a tip from Jared) about the Union Square Clock Mystery, as confirmed by my own reporting and the Gray Lady. This is actually old news – I think Curbed had a similar photo a few weeks ago – which is (like, totally) about 4.5 blog years ago. I had taken the photo above for awhile, but I had lost the memory card.
Just like I thought the banner they put up is both obvious and ugly. Letting viral marketing and word of mouth develop would have created more “buzz” for the Olympics, instead of creating a banner which treats every New Yorker as a dumb bumkin, is typical of the Bloomberg administration.
Have we come to a point in culture where the message has to be so explicit? So obvious? Or Ugly?

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Court Street Graf, originally uploaded by plemeljr
As the above photo shows, there is a legal wall painting in progress at the corner of Court & Atlantic going up for the Atlantic Avenue Art Walk this weekend, 4 – 5 June. The walls are being painted by thirteen or so artists, and they will be working from 4 pm to dark every night this week to finish the work. The gentleman, whose name I instantly forgot (sorry!), working on his section said that tomorrow and Thursday would be the best nights to check out the work in progress.
For more photos of this wall at the Court & Atlantic Legal Wall set, the graffiti or streetart tags, and Jake Dobkin’s Streetart Archive.