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Nick Walker (NOT Banksy) On a Roll Citywide
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John Del Signore
Published May 13, 2008
Modified May 13, 2008
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Gawker is stoking the debate over whether street artist Nick Walker is in fact the mysterious millionaire street artist Banksy; we continue to disagree. Nick Walker and Banksy are definitely, positively two different people – although they are both English graffiti artists, and they are friends.
Here in New York, Walker’s been a busy bee, branching out from last week’s work in the West Village to Williamsburg, where aptly-named blog Williamsburg is Dead documented Walker’s big giraffe at the Roebling Tea Room.
The above photograph was taken this morning on Bedford Avenue and South 3rd Street, where Walker has left his mark on the side of the rustic Italian restaurant PT. Let us know if you snap a shot of him in action, so we can settle this debate and move on to more pressing issues, like "Trucker Caps: So Over or So Over They're Coming Back?"
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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