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The ICON logo has been reworked to read: "I AM CON ARTIST." The sign was also tagged with the demand, "LET STAGE LIVE!" and the #SaveNYC hashtag.
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This address happens to be the former home of New York School poet Frank O'Hara. Not his last place, which was demolished for a condo, but the place where he wrote enough poems, the GVSHP put a plaque on the wall. Maybe it was Frank's ghost, home from a long stroll, who marked up the Icon sign.
Further along, at 445 E. 9th, he wrote the same messages on another ICON sign. What looks like a second hand added: "The rent is too fucking high, you greedy fucks!" To which someone else replied, "yes!!"
A 300-square-foot retail space here goes for $5,000 per month.
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1 comment:
That's awesome.
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