NYC Type » Brooklyn http://nyctype.com Typography and lettering from the streets of New York City Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:34:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 NYC Vernacular — Greenpoint — Brooklyn http://nyctype.com/2009/05/nyc-vernacular-%e2%80%94-greenpoint-%e2%80%94-brooklyn/ http://nyctype.com/2009/05/nyc-vernacular-%e2%80%94-greenpoint-%e2%80%94-brooklyn/#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 19:40:04 +0000 Matthew Anderson http://nyctype.com/?p=194

148 Franklin. I’ve admired this address number for the past 2+ years and have never documented it. I’m always struck, when I pass, how well it has worn. Amazingly it has existed unscathed from meandering graffiti marks that inhabit most of the surrounding wall. It continues to live quite happily in this sea of vibrant and sunscorched blue.

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