Inwood, Just off Broadway, between Isham and 212th Streets

I must interrupt the 11th Street photowalk for a very exciting event. Yesterday I came upon a new Inwood wall painting as it was being painted.

I have never, in all my walking days, seen street art as it was being made. And I met the artist. Alan Ket. Very well known in the street art world.



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There he is in the red shirt blending into the painting.



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And this is Stak. He did the face.



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This is the man. If you want to see his face, click here.

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Inwood, Just Off Broadway Between Isham and 212th Streets

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Bill was visiting until today; he was in town for a history conference over the weekend and then stayed on so we could have dinner with people and see a movie and go on a photowalk. Bill is my son. Tuesday was our photowalk; we went to the Lower East Side to find some yogurt at Saxelby Cheesemongers, claimed to be better than Kesso.

On our way to the A train, I took this shot of the latest wall painting.

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Inwood, Just off Broadway Between Isham and 212th Streets

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A new wall painting. I passed this last night on my way to the A train to 50th Street. I was going on a short photowalk before I met Carolyn and Ilana at Chez Napoleon. More tomorrow night. It's too damn late tonight.

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And there! Is that it through the trees? (You haven't forgotten we're on a mission, have you?)




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Yes, indeed. A new wall painting. Since there are four earlier paintings at this site, I have now put them into their own category: Inwood Wall Painting, but you will still find them mixed in with Street Art and Graffiti.

I'm not taken with this one as much as the others. The words in the white boxes are too dominating for my taste. It's the white boxes, mainly. What think you?

The End.

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Inwood, Just Off Broadway Between Isham and 212th Streets

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We have a new wall painting and it's anti-war. You can find the 3 older versions on the street art and graffiti label. This one is quite handsome, don't you think?

Here's a closer shot showing a quote from Albert Einstein. You should be able to read it if you enlarge it.



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I shot these today on my way to get the A train to go to the 4th Street stop, so I could walk over 3rd Street to Broadway, then down Broadway a couple blocks to Venus by Maria Tash where I got my ears pierced! Yes! Carolyn told me I was one of only two people in the world who hadn't had their ears pierced but I think that's an exaggeration.

If you have need of a piercing, I'd recommend this place even though it has an annoying name because it was reassuringly clean and the two women were nice and without attitude and competent.

Now, let's see, what should I pierce next . . . Hmmm.

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Inwood, Just off Broadway Between Isham and 212th Streets

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Today was not ideal for a photowalk, it being gray and threatening to rain, but you go on your walk with the weather you are given. Plus, I had to go to the post office to mail some books. Do you know about BookMooch? It's a great booktrading website – so far I've given away 13 books and received 21. And I'm not cheating! You get extra points for some things, like mailing to a foreign country. Anyway, now mailing those books is more of a chore than it was when I was employed. All of you employed people know what I'm talking about. It's one of those little things that I miss. The copy machine, of course, is major.

So here at the beginning of the walk is a new painting on the side of New Edition Drycleaners. I showed you a closeup first so you can see the funny face above which didn't exist in older versions. To see those, go here and here.



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Inwood, Just off Broadway Between Isham and 212th Streets

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And so back home. But what's this then? Remember, back in February when it looked like this? (Scroll down.)

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Inwood, Just off Broadway Between Isham and 212th Streets

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One way to get to the A Train is to walk down Park Terrace East to Isham Park, then walk through the park (it's a small park, only a few blocks long, as you can see if you click on the map link) and down the stairs to a paved walkway that leads to Broadway. This building is on the other side of the walkway. It fronts on Isham Street and backs onto Isham Park.

The graffiti is on the side of a smaller building which faces Broadway, and as long as I've lived here, that wall has been painted, but it changes from time to time. Not being a follower of street art, I can't tell you who did it or if the artist is well known in the street art world. Anyone know?

I have to show two photos tonight. I tried to pick one, but I can't.

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