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Pic of the piece they were covering
Excerpt from NYPOST article Link: http://nypost.com/2013/10/11/east-new-york-jerks-charge-to-see-banksy-piece/
A couple of savvy Brooklyn street entrepreneurs have started charging $20 a pop to take pictures of a new Banksy art piece of a stenciled beaver.
The amateur curators used cardboard to shield the well-known British graffiti artist’s piece in their East New York neighborhood and will remove it only for a price.
“I’m trying to get some bread,” a man said in a video posted on YouTube Thursday. “This is my neighborhood. If you wanna take a picture, it’s gonna cost something.”
Later in the day, a man who called himself a Banksy “fan” stopped by with a hammer and chisel and attempted to remove the art from the wall, according to the Web site Animal New York.
The street artist is currently doing a monthlong “residency” in New York, where he’s putting up his work on various public walls around town.
Is this huslin at its finest or too grimy even for New York
Technically its illegal to do graffiti there but does that justify these "business men's" motives
What does Niketalk think about this
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