Power Washing 188 Suffolk St.

Power Washing 188 Suffolk St.

Power Washing 188 Suffolk St.
With New York City real estate prices so high, owners are fixing up their buildings

17 Responses to “Power Washing 188 Suffolk St.”

  1. 5 Jan 2007 at 11:58 am Crago

    You were linked on Gothamist and Kottke!

  2. 5 Jan 2007 at 2:46 pm France

    What’s in the neighborhood - a smokestack? There’s got to be some bleach or something in the powerwash.

  3. 5 Jan 2007 at 3:18 pm Pete

    This is awesome. So surreal.

  4. 5 Jan 2007 at 5:52 pm NYC

    You were also linked to by boingboing! I was just looking through your other photos — I love your site!

  5. 5 Jan 2007 at 6:15 pm El Payo

    I feel like I should powerwash my copy of Physical Graffiti now.

  6. 5 Jan 2007 at 6:31 pm ROF

    I own a power washer & use it regularly. Knowing where & when to stop is always a problem — sort of like a guy w/ a new chain saw! It would seem that once these guys start on a “part” of a contiguous building, they’d almost have to be hired to do the rest.

    Imagine the mess at street level!!!!!

  7. 5 Jan 2007 at 7:16 pm dieselboi

    Cities create dirt. If you live in a city, open your window and wipe your window sill outside. It will probably be grimy. Wow! That is an amazing contrast. Great photo. Came here from boingboing

  8. 5 Jan 2007 at 8:13 pm Cagey

    Wow, amazing picture! They just cleaned the old building where we work (in a small town in the UK) and we all thought it was stunning, but nothing on this transformation!

    Makes you wonder why officials let beautiful old buildings like this get in such a state.

    ROF : Exactly!, don’t even think about walking under those guys, talk about bad luck!!! :D

  9. 5 Jan 2007 at 10:34 pm Michael Senkow

    This makes me wonder, clean graffitti? What would it look like if someone went to a dirty old building, and simply powerwashed something, in an artistic manner, into the grime. SOrta like a painting made with an eraser. Would that be graffitti or cleaning?

  10. 5 Jan 2007 at 10:52 pm Katey

    Michael- on Boingboing a while back there was a post about such a thing as you are talking about!

    http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/13/reverse_graffiti_con.html

  11. 6 Jan 2007 at 5:44 am Chordonblue

    Citydwellers: Now imagine how your lungs must look!

  12. 6 Jan 2007 at 11:56 am justin

    amazing photo

  13. 6 Jan 2007 at 9:10 pm angie

    Linking thru at Buzzcn.

  14. 6 Jan 2007 at 9:14 pm miles

    Good grief! Now that’s filthy! Well done on capturing this, I suspect it’s going to be everywhere!

  15. 7 Jan 2007 at 12:33 pm laanba

    Wow! That’s incredible. I wonder how long it took to do that.

    Saw your photo at the Photoblogs.org Blog.

  16. 22 Mar 2007 at 5:57 am Bitsch

    Fantastic! Love this pic!

  17. 2 Apr 2007 at 12:40 pm Jansi

    This makes me wonder, clean graffitti? What would it look like if someone went to a dirty old building, and simply powerwashed something, in an artistic manner, into the grime. SOrta like a painting made with an eraser. Would that be graffitti or cleaning?

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