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Street artist Dan Witz has some entertaining pieces around town, mostly on condo walls in Brooklyn and the Lower East Side. Imagine buying the luxury condo of your dreams only to discover one of these alarming scenarios. Witz explains his series, Ugly New Buildings:

In the past few years much of my neighborhood in Brooklyn has been torn down to make way for luxury housing. For better or worse it's a whole new street-scape out here. Personally, I can't say I like the new modern architecture very much, it's so arrogantly disconnected with the neighborhood that it's just plain bizarre. I miss the crooked old frame houses and grungy bodegas. Sometimes I wonder about the people who lived their lives here and were forced to move. I realize that to them a street artist like me is probably part of the problem, but still I wanted them to know someone misses them.

Dan Witz wrote in to give us a sneak preview of his 2007 New Year prank:

-- If you're going to Brooklyn Eats tonight, we're jealous!

If you're a fan of bodega architecture (and who isn't?), don't miss BenBen's set of 52 bodegas at Flickr. Related: Dan Witz' spooky oil paintings of NYC bodegas at night. [Via Tozzer, who's been shooting lots of run-down buildings.]

WoosterCollective has a great New Year's piece by Dan Witz, one of the kings of NYC streetart. You can find it down on Herbert Street in Greenpoint, close to the BQE. Dan has done one of these before (in Red Hook? we're not sure.) Check out all of his amazing stuff at his site- especially the hoody pieces, the skateboard set, and the WTC shrines.