Knockdown Center At first glance, I thought I’d discovered an obscurity—this sign, Knockdown Center, located in Maspeth Queens, a neighborho

The first thing I noticed are the big terra cotta words at the top: bold, proud and municipal—a relic from the (imagined?) days when craf...

To me, most street murals are pretentious, overly photo-realistic, and lack edginess. (witness the succession of vapidity at the Houston ...