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[WATCH] 360° Video Gives an Immersive View Inside The Batcave: Brooklyn Temple of Graffiti

2023-01-16T12:00:00-05:00

Dating back to the 1950s, the Gowanus Batcave is one of the City's oldest graffiti havens. Similar to its Queens counterpart 5 Pointz, the Batcave is being demolished and converted into residences. In this immersive 360° video from the New York Times, peek inside the graffiti-filled Batcave before it is gone for good.

The Batcave, a derelict warehouse in Brooklyn, was a canvas for graffiti for decades. Visit it in this 360° video before it is renovated.

If you can't move the view around, you need to use the Google Chrome browser on desktop, or the YouTube App for iOS or Android to move around inside the video.

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[VIDEO] Documentary About Landmarked Germania Bank Building: "Jay Myself: Photography, the Bank, and Me"

2022-06-14T12:00:00-04:00

Jay Myself: Photography, the Bank, and Me is an interesting documentary about photographer Jay Maisel and the massive 35,000 square-foot, 72-room former Germania Bank Building he called home on 190 Bowery for nearly five decades.

The film documents Jay’s monumental move through the eyes of filmmaker and Jay’s protege, noted artist and photographer Stephen Wilkes. It is through this intimate lens that the viewer is taken on a remarkable journey through Jay’s life as an artist, mentor and man; a man grappling with time, life, change, and the end of an era in New York City.

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[WATCH] 360° Video Gives an Immersive View Inside The Batcave, a Brooklyn Temple of Graffiti

2022-03-24T12:00:00-04:00

The Batcave, a derelict warehouse in Brooklyn, was a canvas for graffiti for decades. Visit it in this 360° video before it is renovated.

If you can't move the view around, you need to use the Google Chrome browser on desktop, or the YouTube App for iOS or Android to move around inside the video.

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Monday, January 24th, 2022, Good Evening!

2022-01-24T18:00:00-05:00

Good evening! Wishing you a happy Monday, January 24th, 2022 from all of us at Viewing NYC!

Here's what the weather looks like in the City right now.

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Friday, January 21st, 2022, Good Morning!

2022-01-21T10:00:00-05:00

Good morning! Wishing you a happy Friday, January 21st, 2022 from all of us at Viewing NYC!

Here's what the weather looks like in the City right now.

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[WATCH] At Least Two Dozen Subway Cars Hit With Large Scale Murals

2020-12-04T16:00:00-05:00

Is this graffiti or street art? 🤔

The NYPD is searching for the vandals who managed to get away with the huge paint jobs. CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez reports.

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[WATCH] Take a Walk Through NYC's Deepest Subway Station and Street Art-Filled Tunnel

2020-08-13T16:00:00-04:00

Local pro photographers James and Karla Murray have a YouTube series in which they explore neighborhoods and attractions around New York City from their unique perspective. In this recent video from the duo, watch as they take you on a walkthrough of the City's deepest subway station, along with its colorful, street-art filled access tunnel. Check it out!

We walk through the 191st Street Subway Station in Washington Heights, Manhattan to explore New York City's deepest subway station in the MTA system. Not only is the station the deepest in New York at 180 feet (55 meters) below street level, but it also has as its entrance point a very long "Tunnel Street" pedestrian passageway (1,000 feet long or 300 meters).

After walking the entire length of the graffiti lined tunnel passageway and on the dirty platforms of the 191st Street station, we get on the 1 train and head downtown one stop to visit the 181st Street Subway Station, which also is located deep underground and can only be accessed by four elevators, which notoriously have been labeled as dangerous by residents of New York City.

Graffiti art spray painted by the legendary Bronx graffiti artist, COPE 2 is featured along the pedestrian tunnel.

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[WATCH] 360° Video Gives an Immersive View Inside The Batcave, a Brooklyn Temple of Graffiti

2020-07-07T16:00:00-04:00

The Batcave, a derelict warehouse in Brooklyn, was a canvas for graffiti for decades. Visit it in this 360° video before it is renovated.

If you can't move the view around, you need to use the Google Chrome browser on desktop, or the YouTube App for iOS or Android to move around inside the video.

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[WATCH] How a Train Tunnel Became the Center of NYC’s Art Scene

2020-06-29T10:00:00-04:00

In this episode of “I Was There”, VICE meets Chris Pape, a renowned artist known for his graffiti work in the “Freedom Tunnel”. The tunnel runs under Riverside Park in Manhattan and was used for freight trains until its closure in the 1980s. Once closed, a community of homeless people began to flourish. Chris Pape talks about his experience with this community and the art he practiced there until the tunnel completely shuttered a decade later.

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[WATCH] Here's What Canal Street From Chinatown to Tribeca Looks Like Amidst Coronavirus Quarantine

2020-05-28T12:00:00-04:00

Local pro photographers James and Karla Murray have a YouTube series in which they explore neighborhoods around New York City from their unique perspective. Obviously, their normal video tours have been suspended due to the Coronavirus pandemic, but in this recent video, watch as they give you a walk through the entirety of Canal Street from Chinatown to Tribeca.

We see many closed shops and restaurants during our walk as well as a few that are thankfully open, serving hungry New Yorkers who are in quarantine during the COVID-19 State of Emergency. We also look lots of graffiti that we see painted on the streets. New York City streets we walk along include the entire length of Canal Street from Essex Street in Chinatown to West Street in TriBeCa, which is a normally busy stretch with both traffic and locals and tourists shopping but we found it to be nearly empty. Filmed on Friday, May 22, 2020

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