Perception Vs Reality At Gouverneur Hospital: A Look Inside At The Grimy Conditions

Gouverneur Hospital on the left, across the street from Fiorello LaGuardia Houses 

Gouverneur Hospital is a New York City public hospital surrounded by tenement housing and imposing public housing projects near the East River on the Lower East Side, in a community filled predominantly with poor Asians and Hispanics. The hospital is currently undergoing a modernization project which began in 2008. The Lo-Down reports the project "will transform the existing building and add a gleaming 108,000 sq./ft. tower." The intent, according to Executuve Director Mendel Hagler explained, "is to create a hospital that doesn’t feel like a hospital." What Hagler neglected to mention is the hospital doesn't currently feel like a hospital anyways, more than a ramshackle structure haphazardly constructed to provide last resort care to poor people.

Love Life - Seen On Oliver Street

Not sure who this lively graffiti belongs to, but it appeared on Oliver Street near Henry Street a few days ago.

Previously:

• Jay Shells Installs Unauthorized Mural In West Village
  
• Graffiti-Free NYC Under The Cover Of Darkness
  
• Lovestruck Graffiti Sprouts All Over Chinatown
  
• The Hidden Graffiti Of Chinatown

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Lovestruck Graffiti Sprouts All Over Chinatown In Lower East Side

The lovestruck declaration above appeared recently on Catherine Street deep in Chinatown. It joins two other adoring works around the corner on Henry Street, one of which was painted over just this week. That one declared: "I will braid your hair with gold." As well, there is yet another love note a few blocks north on Bowery, and likely others elsewhere. Two more photos below.

The Hidden Graffiti Of Chinatown

Some of Chinatown's most vibrant and colorful graffiti can only be viewed from the pedestrian walkway on the south side of the Manhattan bridge. It is from that vantage point you can see where writers have taken advantage of building walls facing the bridge to talk to each other and passersby with a multitude of tags and fillins. You can view more photos on NYC The Blog's Facebook page.


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