Street Art

On the Friday evening before the final big weekend of summer, members of one of New York’s last private beach clubs, the Silver Gull in Queens, received an ominous email. The club’s playground would be closed, the manager wrote, “due to the recent and increasing incidence of vandalism from within the club.” Word soon spread […] More

The owner of a new kosher steakhouse in Crown Heights wanted the mural painted over, according to the rumor. Sean Price, the mural’s subject, a local rapper who was known to his fans as “Ruck” and who made up half of the hip-hop duo Heltah Skeltah, had died in 2015 from unknown causes. His lyrics […] More