[photo credit: Evan R. Wexler]
Of all the possible reasons a pair of Brits visiting NYC could get arrested, illegally building a huge, mythical wooden bird-monster overlooking a Brooklyn street has got to be the most interesting.
UK-based artists operating under the noms de guerre Jimmy Bumble and Leonard White built the Brooklyn Griffin, a nine-foot sculpture made from shipping pallets and skateboards, atop an industrial building on Brooklyn's Billyburg-Bushwick border (without permission); the infuriated building manager subsequently had the pair arrested and the sculpture smashed to bits.
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