“Brooklyn, Number 1”
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Content and images by: Caressa Losier
Face it, when it comes to street art in New York City, Brooklyn is it! Every street corner, store, restaurant and sometimes even the sidewalk is just covered in creativity. So we traveled around the city – Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Red Hook, Greenpoint, Prospect Heights, Williamsburg and several other neighborhoods to get a taste of what makes Brooklyn street art so special. Continue below to see the best street art in Brooklyn from over 50 talented well-known artists from around the world.
Don Rimx
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Jerkface
Queens street artist Jerkface created this Pink Panther mural that covers the gates of what used to be Grandma Roses in Brooklyn, NY. Jerkface street art offers a splash of nostalgia with cartoon characters like Pink Panther, Spongebob Square Pants, Tom & Jerry – from all of the greatest childhood shows.
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Angotti
Eduardo Kobra
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Sidka One & Nubian
Montpellier artists Sidka One and Nubian Artwork joined forces to make their mark on Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood with French Touch. The French artists found the perfect spot for their mural atop of La Mina Meat Market.
Alexandre Keto
Zim One
Fin DAC
See #MelanatedMurals for more information on The Watcher by FinDAC.
Colossal Media
What initially began as a photo “Lost Time” by Steven Paul turned into the emblematic, 4-story high mural The Mona Lisa of Williamsburg. Colassal Media partnered with Scholastic to celebrate The Scholastic Art & Writing Award Gold Medalist by painting his photo.
Vince Ballentine
Owen Dippie
Pol Corona
Lolo
Klops & Matt Adnate
Iena Cruz
Dasic Fernandez
Dasic Fernandez street art is a splashing rainbow of vibrant, gravity-defying colors and characters. His artwork Virgin & Child was created with several other popular Brooklyn street art pieces for The Bushwick Collective 2014. Fernandez dedicated this bold mural to the mother of his children.
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DFace & Spraying Bricks
Icy & Sot
Color Rain by the Brooklyn-based Iranian duo Icy and Sot is a seventy-foot long mural that depicts a line of young children looking up at a rainbow downpour. It is located in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.
Alan Aine
Sara Erenthal
See #AFWBW for more information on Women Are by Sara Erenthal.
Resa Piece
NS CB
Bushwick Natives
Artists: Zimer (@zimernyc ), Vince Ballentine (@vinceballentine99 ), Damien Mitchell (@damien_mitchell ), Andre Trenier (@andre_trenier ), Angotti (@angotti81 ), Resa Piece (@resa_piece ), Knickerbocker Ave., Brooklyn, NY
Several talented artists teamed up at Brooklyn’s 83rd precinct to portray some of the most respected Bushwick Brooklynites in the entertainment industry. This Bushwick Natives mural features Jackie Gleason by Zimer, Jeannie Ortega by Vince Ballentine, Eddie Murphy by Damien Mitchell, Rosie Perez by Andre Trenier, Rick Gonzalez by Angotti and Phil Rizzuto of the New York Yankees by Resa Piece.
Zimer & Rocko
Lmnopi
Denton Burrows
Damien Mitchell
Lexi Bella & Danielle Mastrion
Danielle Mastrion
ANJL
Vexta & Askew One
Brooklyn street art like The Thread That Binds Us by Vexta & Askew One has several positive advantages. For starters, this climate change-inspired mural brightens up this artistic Greenpoint neighborhood with bright neon bands and outlined faces of local sustainability innovators. Sweet! This Brooklyn street art mural was also made with sugar-based paint from Ironlak.
DFace
Gaz NYC
Fumeroism
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Sonni
James Bullough
Sexer1
Ibrahim El-Baait
Brooklyn street art that honors its natives, like Dirty Came by Ibrahim El-Baait, is important to the community. Ol Dirty Bastard was born in Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, but this mural on the side of a corner store in Bed Stuy honors the Brooklyn-turned-Staten Island resident by portraying his famous food stamp identification card.
Cern
Welin
Gaia
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