Map on Franklin Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
Map on West 10th Street, West Village, Manhattan
About a month ago I saw this map on Franklin Street in Tribeca while out for a much-needed stroll on my lunch break. I quickly became obsessed, taking about 20 photos of it, and then promptly forgot about it. Until this weekend when I saw another one in The Village. Does anyone know where I can find more? They’re hand-painted maps with all of the streets marked. The one on Franklin Street includes a compass at the top. Both have a “You Are Here” marker and point out local restaurants, bars, and shops.
Also this weekend, I found another Space Invaders mosaic, this time in Chelsea. Previously I’d seen them in Brooklyn.
Space Invaders, 23rd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
17 responses so far ↓
1 callalillie // Nov 18, 2003 at 1:10 pm
Space Invaders! What a great idea. I want to know who does the alien graffiti all around town–I think it’s great.
2 Mark Shewmaker // Nov 18, 2003 at 2:07 pm
Is this the first rachelleb.com re-run?
What should we expect during sweeps week?
3 rachelle // Nov 18, 2003 at 2:09 pm
heh. that’s when i give people access to the.. ahem.. password protected area..
4 e // Nov 18, 2003 at 3:48 pm
i wondered what that was… i see that by my bus stop (on 10th ave right?)… there’s another one at the 10th ave entrance of chelsea market, i think.
5 rachelle // Nov 18, 2003 at 3:52 pm
it’s 10th street. that gourmet garage & nysc you can see is on 7th ave.
6 e // Nov 18, 2003 at 4:28 pm
oh, i meant the space invaders.
7 rachelle // Nov 18, 2003 at 4:32 pm
ohhh. yeh. you’re right. we were walking from the uhaul to go find somewhere to eat.
8 joe // Nov 18, 2003 at 5:41 pm
callalillie, by aliens do you mean these creatures? They are adorable. For a while I thought they may have been ghosts but now I recall seeing spaceships with some of them.
9 rachelleb // Nov 18, 2003 at 6:08 pm
joe, i think those must be the ones. rion has some good photos of them too
10 callalillie // Nov 19, 2003 at 8:19 am
No, actually there’s someone who spraypaints aliens. i think rion has some good shots of them…i’ll look.
11 rachelleb // Nov 19, 2003 at 8:35 am
um. like the ones we both linked to?
12 chuck // Nov 19, 2003 at 5:37 pm
there is a huge wall map of DUMBO in, conveniently, DUMBO. just don’t spend too much time trying to take the picture. the local richies have banned any more filming or photoshoots in their neighborhood.
13 rachelleb // Nov 19, 2003 at 10:24 pm
where in dumbo?
the local richies have banned any more filming or photoshoots in their neighborhood
the local richies like jeannette & yvan?
14 tien // Nov 19, 2003 at 11:08 pm
or mos def.
15 joe s // Dec 27, 2003 at 10:50 pm
Check out http://www.space-invaders.com/newyork.html. The Space Invader mosaics are the work of an anonymous French artist, who has “invaded” 25 different cities around the world (from http://www.fluxfactory.org“>http://www.fluxfactory.org/“>http://www.fluxfactory.org see the Air link). You can buy maps of the invasion from Flux Factory.
16 Anders Jacobsen's blog // Mar 24, 2004 at 12:28 pm
More space invaders
More aliens in the streets…
17 commando // Jul 23, 2004 at 3:56 pm
http://space-invaders.com/
all you need to know