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Graffiti Travel: NYC Gets Invaded

If two is a trend, graffiti is back in a big way. A couple days after a big story on the scene in Berlin, now The New York Times is pointing out the coolest street art in NYC.

There's way more to see than just tags and murals:

Street art can be drawings on paper that have been wheat-pasted onto the side of a building; images stenciled right onto walls; sculptures screwed onto a stop sign pole; even tiles arranged to form 1980s video game aliens, which the French street artist, Space Invader, put up dozens of during a recent visit to the city. Did you notice?

If you didn't, Flickr has a ton of photos of Space Invader's New York art.

Your best bet for seeing good stuff is just walking around, keeping an eye on doorways, lampposts, newspaper boxes and looking down alleyways. Neighborhoods like Chelsea, the Lower East Side, Dumbo and Williamsburg are easily walkable and offer a high concentration of stuff to see. And to get you primed, we tossed together this slideshow of what to expect:

Related Stories:
· To the Trained Eye, Museum Pieces Lurk Everywhere [NYT]
· Graffiti Travel: Berlin Gets Sprayed [Jaunted]
· Street Art coverage [Jaunted]

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