California Here We Come? Hollister Wipes Out DKNY

Bowery Boogie reports that the six-story DKNY mural that has dominated the corner of Broadway and Houston since 1992 is, as of yesterday, history:

I somehow missed that fact when I pedaled home after work at the end of the day.

Here, for archival purposes, is what had been there for almost two decades:

(Photo from Flaming Pablum‘s “Vanishing Downtown” pages)

Arriving close on the heels of Donna Karan’s corporate founding in 1989, the mural must have been viewed by survivors of SoHo’s transformation in the 80s as the coup de gr