Brooklyn Street Art Tour

Overview

Tour Description: Take a tour of the impressive Bushwick Brooklyn Neighborhood - More than 50 multicolored murals transforming a swath of warehouse buildings into a vast outdoor art gallery. Learn from an insider the stories behind the walls which includes works by Danielle Mastrion, Fumero, Giz, Blek le Rat, Dasic, and more. See the best street art in NYC in this artist neighborhood before its too late.

Meeting Location: 282 Meserole St. Bushwick Brooklyn 11206

City: New York City

Mon 23 Dec

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Starting at $25.00

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Mon 23 Dec

Starting at $25.00

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What's Included

Local guide

Additional Info

Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Operates in most weather conditions; please dress appropriately
Please arrive 15 minutes early for check-in
Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons

What To Expect

Graff Tours

Graff Tours Street Art

Bushwick Collective Street Art

More than 50 multicolored murals transforming a swath of warehouse buildings into a vast outdoor art gallery.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (81)

Laura C

Jun 2018

The Street Art Tour of Bushwick was perfect especially with Audrey as our guide. Audrey's knowledge, enthusiasm and passion was shared with 15 of us for 1 and 1/2 hours on a crystal clear, pleasant, breezy late May afternoon. Our eyes and ears were opened up to the unknown culture behind the vibrant art of graffiti we can see from cars, trains and on foot in the landscape of urban Bushwick. Walking shoes would be a good idea although my 2" sandals were fine for the sidewalks and streets.

Michelle M

May 2018

Loved seeing this area of town. May not have been the most informative, but I saw what I wanted to see and had my questions answered well.

DanaFlowersx8

Apr 2018

I usually love graffiti tours. I have taken them in every major city that I have traveled in. This tour was one of the worst guided tours – graffiti or otherwise – that I have ever taken. The tour was led by Eddie, or Staff 161, who is a pioneer in the graffiti art movement. I know this because he told us over and over again. Whenver he would run out of things to say (which was all the time) he would just repeat that he was a pioneer of the industry, and that in order to be a street artist you need to have the “Respect of the streets”. He must have said “respect of the streets” over 30 times. I have no doubt that he was instrumental in graffiti's history, but that does not a good tour guide make. I have always loved these kinds of tours because you get to walk around a neighborhood and learn it's ins and outs as you go. Not so with this one. We basically walked slowly, within a three block radius of the sutdio. For an hour and a half. Even that would have been okay, if I were learning something interesting. Which I was not, at all. This guy basically spent our time going from one piece to another, reading the artist's names, and telling us where they were from. Spain, France, London, etc. Once that was done, he would point out things in the piece. “This peice is nice because of all of the colors. A lot of artists put cultural stuff in their peices, things that represent them. Here we can see a feather. And a pearl. And bright colors. Like green and yellow and blue and red...” and after he had finished basically playing eye-spy he would just trail off and say something hypothetical. “This guys is a really good artist so... he probably has a fine arts degree. Or something.” He didn't even know! He was just throwing out random guesses, and pointing out random shapes and colors. This is not something that I needed to pay $20 for. The cherry on the sundae was when we got to a peice, and Eddie said, “Yeah, apparently this guy died the other day. I saw something about it on facebook.” Nothing else. No details, no information, he didn't even check to see if that statement was true. He just rattled off something he saw on his newsfeed in passing. This guy clearly didn't care about having anything interesting or accurate to say to us. He ended the tour 20 minutes early by saying, “So... is there anything else you wanna see? You good?” and I was honestly glad to be out of such a crappy tour earlier than expected. Next came the workshop, which we had pre-paid for. It was with Leaf, who was very cool and gave us more information in the first 15 minutes of meeting him than Eddie had done in 2 hours. Just beware, the colors you use as “practice” colors actually end up in your final peice, even though he assured us they wouldn't. So if you use a color that you don't really like – like I did – that's what's going on your living room wall. About halfway through the workshop the boss, Gabe Shoenberg, came into the room. He didn't introduce himself at all, he just sat on a couch and awkwardly watched us while making snide sounding comments about our peices. It made me super uncomfortable to be watched in a small room by some dude I don't know, who didn't even bother to say hi. I think he was trying to be friendly and “jokey” but it really missed the mark. And then, the piece de resistance. The art is done, we're all happy, now what? “Oh, it needs to dry properly” we were told. Okay, can we come back in a few hours to pick it up? “No, we'll be closing soon.” Their suggestion was that we hold our giant, 6ft x 6ft (if not bigger) canvases open, in the breeze, while we walk around Brooklyn for the next couple of hours. When I asked for a bag or tube to roll it up in, they said they didn't have anything. DUDE. Your tours are full of tourists. We planned to spend the day out and about, I'm not going to travel for 2 hours on the bus to bring my canvas back to my hotel, nor am I going to wander around for the entire rest of the day and night with a giant, heavy, canvas that I'm not supposed to fold or roll too tightly. What did you expect? You cannot honestly say that you didn't think about this? After seeing my expression, Gabe reluctantly brought up that they sometimes ship canvases home to tourists so they don't have to deal with carrying it around. Then he tried to make me pay for the shipping. After I stared incredulously for another minute, he relented saying that he would pay for the shipping. This tour made me so angry that it could have easily ruined the rest of our day in Brooklyn. Pros were being able to see cool art, learning how to use a spray-can, and having a genuine peice of graffitti art that I helped to create. Cons are too numerous to name, but they include an awful, boring, lackluster tour guide who didn't seem to care about giving us any information, accurate or not; not walking more than a three block radius; the tour ending early – even though I was glad it was done; a startling lack of planning regarding how tourists are supposed to manage with their canvases after the workshop, and finally a creepy boss who only reluctantly offered solutions after we refused to accept spending the rest of our day bogged down with our art. Graffiti tours, in general, are awesome. This one is far from it. Do yourself a favor and go find another one.