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Images Of The Week: 03.30.25

Images Of The Week: 03.30.25

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Congratulations to our Muslim neighbors in NYC on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, and we wish them peace, joy, and blessings as they mark the end of Ramadan.

The popping rumble of customized mufflers is back on the streets, a rite of spring as familiar as purple crocuses and snowdrops pushing through browned grass, old 40 bottles, crumpled chip bags, and cigarette butts. The warming weather softens the ground and lets loose the mingled scents of hydrangea and dog pee. And once again, Saturday night Romeos are rolling down their windows, cruising slow, and blasting tracks like Jack Harlow and Doja Cat’s new banger “Just Us”—hoping someone’s paying attention.

On the street art tip, you’ll see Faile has come back with some of their new and old icons remixed, Trump and Elon are widely critiqued in caricature, and vertical graffiti is the new horizontal.

We continue with our interviews with the street, this week including Faile, John Ahearn, CRKSHNK, Modomatic, Qzar, EXR, Ollin, Sto, REW X, Want Pear, Batola, Ooh Baby, Thug Life, and Jayo.

Faile. Detail. Mirror Mirror, Me Myself and I (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Faile. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
EXR (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CRKSHNK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CRKSHNK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
John Ahearn (photo © Jaime Rojo)
QZAR. WANT PEAR. BAT.OLA. OLLIN. SERVE. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
PAR (photo © Jaime Rojo)
GUS. STO. REW. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Modomatic (photo © Jaime Rojo)
XXX (photo © Jaime Rojo)
XXX Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
XXX (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ooh Baby (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Thug Life (photo © Jaime Rojo)
JAYO (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The Pink Panther with tag. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Manhattan, NY. March 2025. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 03.17.24

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.17.24

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Happy St. Patricks Day to all our Irish brethren and sisteren (?) — unless you are unlucky to be a gaylesbitrans Irish resident of Staten Island: their official Saint Patty parade bans all of those other types. Our 5th borough always complains that it doesn’t get enough attention because Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens hog the spotlight. So bigotry, because why not? But Manhattan shouldn’t bray too loudly; we’re old enough to remember the LGBT bans by The Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) at the beery 5th Avenue parades for decades.

Grocery stores, big box stores, and McDonald’s are converting customer service to self-service, so why not law enforcement in Brooklyn? On the subway, this dude takes a gun from his attacker so he can shoot him, after another passenger stabbed him in the back. You used to call this vigilante justice, but now it’s just called DIY policing.

And now images from our ongoing conversation Specter, Cern, Homesick, Peter Phobia, Dzel, REW, Folk, Appear 37, BRK. Nover NYC, GUS, Hand of Tess, 1krlOs, Pirdb!, Kool Hand, Croke, Regae, Nova44, and Spyee.

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hand of Tess (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cern (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Homesick (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Folk (photo © Jaime Rojo)
PIRDB! (photo © Jaime Rojo)
FOLK. HOMESICK. PRDB! (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kool Hand (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CROKE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
REGAE NOVA 44 BRK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SPYEE REGAE BRK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
APPEAR37 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Peterphobia (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The Junkmen (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nover (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nover (photo © Jaime Rojo)
GUS DZEL REW (photo © Jaime Rojo)
1krl0s (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Spring 2024. Manhattan, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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