Guess where this was taken! And add your own

Have you seen art on the street you love? Snap a photo and upload it here. Then view photos by others and post a message with your guess of where the photo was taken.

Here's the first photo. Anyone know where I took this shot?

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Permalink Reply by Nico Daswani on March 18, 2011 at 11:07am

this is either in Brooklyn somewhere... or Buenos Aires...? oh wait, it's banksy! More likely Brooklyn!

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Permalink Reply by John Rouse on March 18, 2011 at 4:47pm

It is Banksy. But, it's in Manhattan. Anyone know what neighborhood this is in?

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Permalink Reply by John Rouse on March 18, 2011 at 4:51pm

What about this one? Does anyone know where it is? Nico, you should know.

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Permalink Reply by John Rouse on March 19, 2011 at 12:02am

Bonus points if you know the story behind it.

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Permalink Reply by Nico Daswani on March 20, 2011 at 12:19pm

i do! i won't divulge

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Permalink Reply by Nathan McKee on March 24, 2011 at 10:11am

Myrtle!

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Permalink Reply by veronica p. on March 19, 2011 at 1:22pm

Not a clue, but beautiful.

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Permalink Reply by John Rouse on March 20, 2011 at 12:38am

This one I took in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. Here's the backstory from the Fort Greene Local Blog:

According to reports from The Times and the Daily News, “Killer Ben” was a notorious presence in the Walt Whitman Houses, one who allegedly dealt in drugs and whose gun play once sent a neighborhood child into a coma.

In 1988, he was convicted of attempted murder for shooting at two police officers from the 88th precinct with a Tec-9 pistol. While O’Garro was serving an attempted murder sentence upstate, his 3-year-old brother Ben Williams was killed when someone — possibly a rival drug gang — shot up the O’Garro apartment in a hail of bullets. That same week, in July of 1990, two other children would be killed by gunfire on city streets.

The older Ben returned to New York in the mid-90s, just as Fort Greene — and the rest of the city — had begun the long process of rehabilitation. But he would never have the same chance at redemption. On Aug. 17, 1995, he was shot dead in a telephone booth outside the Whitman Houses. As Ian Frazier wrote in the New Yorker last year, O’Garro may have been murdered because he stole jewelry from an associate of the rapper Notorious B.I.G, another son of Brooklyn who would die violently before the age of 30.