BROOKLYN’S VANISHING STREET ART (2000)
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The story you are about to read was composed from research conducted in the course of one of those investigations.
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Whether you liked the murals or not, they certainly bore witness to another time in our history, and existed, then, as an integral component of the neighborhood’s fabric. There were memorials to murdered children, commemorations devoted to local or nationally known personalities, and painted demonstrations representing historical struggles.
…and then there were examples of this – street art as advertising.
This particular tonsorial work of art, once located in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, had claimed the lion’s share of the street-level wall of a building at the corner of Heyward and Broadway.
Today the street art is long washed away. The building, now housing a corner grocery store, has returned to a closer estimation of how it appeared when the tenement house was built in the late 19th century.
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