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Celebrate The Brooklyn Bridge's Birthday With A Tattoo
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Jamie Feldmar
Published May 10, 2011
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Published May 10, 2011
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Get the gift that never fades next Sunday, when tattoo artist Adam Suerte celebrates the 128th birthday of the Brooklyn Bridge with a $28 Bridge-themed tattoo deal at his shop, the appropriately-named Brooklyn Tattoo. Wimped out last year, when he pulled a similar stunt, but for a dollar cheaper? Well, kids, the bridge ain't getting any younger, and the price will only go up as it ages.
Suerte, who was raised in South Brooklyn, told us: "We had a great time last year tattooing between 60 to 70 bridges on prideful residents of the County of Kings, and fans of the Bridge. I tattoo at least a half dozen Bridges on people every month, I would say it’s the most tattooed homage to Brooklyn and New York there is. Everybody, whether they live in New York or not, is attracted to the iconography of it.” This year, the shop has acquired the space next door and turned it into an Urban Folk Art Gallery, where a group art show commemorating the Bridge through various non-skin-related mediums will take place.
And in case you're considering inking on a different New York landmark, Suerte's your man: he also frequently tattoos The Brooklyn Heights Promenade, The Williamsburgh Savings Bank (popularly known as "The Clocktower,") The Sailors and Soldiers Arch in Grand Army Plaza, the Brooklyn Cyclone, the Coney Island Parachute Jump, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and a variety of streets, subways, and tunnels. That's a serious New York state of mind if we ever heard one.
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