September 20, 2004 Chinatown Graf
Walking towards SoHo along Grand Street through Chinatown, we spotted
this piece of graf about a block or so west of ever-shrinking Little
Italy and Mulberry Street. "Suicide Bomber" is an ominous enough tag,
but one that in New York City, before 9/11, would have been written off
as just another hardcore-sounding, hyperbolic
moniker by just another tagger vying for attention in the cluttered streetscape. Given the
events of Sept. 11, 2001 and the tag's location in lower Manhattan,
however, the tag and its fresh, clean, assertive lines evoke a more
powerful reaction, reminding passersby with unambiguous clarity of the
tremendous death, destruction and terrorism that occured literally only
blocks away.
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