The STIK (Water Tower) has been unveiled.
It can be seen from Union Square Park NYC (13th & 4th)
Thank you STIK for making our amazing city a little bit more incredible.
Much love to the UK for lending us STIK for a brief stint.

Some amazing pictures here:

A RARE LOOK AT KEITH HARING’S ORIGINAL “CRACK IS WACK” MURAL

animalnewyork.com/2014/keith-haring-painting-crack-wack-mural/

Chinatown (makes a lot more sense if you've been there; I can explain what the things mean if you guys care).

"The Chinatown mural, which is the work of a graffiti collective known as Smart Crew, whose members include DCEVE, SNOEMAN and ELMO, is unlike typical street art. City Hall selected the group from a number of graffiti collectives and gave Smart Crew official permission to commission the project."

And finally, the Icy & Sot x Sonni collab 'Gulliver 2.0' - this was a response to the original 'Gulliver' shown earlier, which was painted over within hours by public workers.

6 blocks away.

Fuck off MBW.

Agree....prices will be coming down IMO. Lots of rentals coming to market as well as condos finally. Might take 6-12 months but its coming.

Didn't go to the MBW concert thing, but ended up randomly winning this Hanksy original on wood!! So yeah, interesting night!

I recommend stopping by the Cotton Candy Machine in Brooklyn. They will have two shows on view: The National Poster Retrospecticus and SEHER, SMITHE & KRAKEN. They also have a large selection of pieces on sale which are almost never over $5,000 and a ton of prints by artists mentioned on here.

Dorian Grey Gallery in the East Village has a lot of works available by artists that get mentioned here a bit including Stik, Mau Mau, and Saner--I just saw the Mexican street artists show there which was pretty good. It recently closed but I think they still had a bunch of prints available.

August 23rd will be the last day of the Cruel Summer group exhibition at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in Chelsea. jonathanlevinegallery.com/

If you get a chance I highly recommend visiting 5 Pointz before it is demolished. While it was whitewashed earlier this year a lot of the old work is still visible as is some newer work protesting the whitewashing on the building.

Submerged motherlands--the huge installation by Swoon--will be on view at the Brooklyn museum through August 24th. The installation is really fantastic and the museum is suggested donation.

Also a fun thing to do is to check out the Bowery/Houston Wall on Houston street arrestedmotion.com/tag/bowery-houston-mural/ and then walk around the corner to Russ and Daughters which is an NYC institution and get their famous lox and bagels.

Is there anything else you are interested in while you are visiting? I feel like NYC can be overwhelming with just the sheer number of options of things to do and I am always happy to help someone out with recommendations to help narrow things down a bit.

Bowery mural is not there - they are demolishing the building. Fear not though as they will put back the wall when the new building is built.

Yeah, they're actually going to be revealing the old concrete Bowery wall when construction is complete. The one with the Os Gemeos mural on it.

Thanks for this, opalis141. I'm from the Philly area and even though I've been to NYC dozens of times, I always feel that I'm just skimming the surface of what it has to offer. I'll have to keep these in mind when I visit later this summer.