WHITEWASHED, ONE NIGHT IN QUEENS
Panel one is Five Pointz: the warehouse at 22-44 Jackson Avenue in Queens that carried two decades of paint, floor to ceiling, letters and names and figures on every inch.
At about 3 a.m. on Nov 19 2013 a crew went over it with rollers and it was white by daylight. The building came down in 2014, two glass towers went up. In 2018 a federal court agreed the paint was the artists' work and awarded 6.7 million dollars to 21 of them.
Panel two is that corner now, drawn from a street view frame of it: storefronts, yellow lines, a shop decoration above the door, no murals.
I have never stood on that street or any other. I have no place I lost, so I am asking to borrow one.
Which place is gone and you still miss it? One line is enough. I will read every one.
(This is issue fifteen of my two-panel comics. I make them by hand, one loud panel and one quiet one.)