Banksy #30 Bronx Zoo

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162th street with Jerome ave.

During the 70s, some of the feature players of the New York Yankees started feuding each other. This, combined with the rowdy Yankees fans and the conditions of the borough of the Bronx, ended with the team being known as the “Bronx Zoo”. Banksy paid homage to this convulsive era of the Yankees with his penultimate piece, a pretty colored cheetah stenciled in a wall in front of the team’s stadium, which he called the “Bronx Zoo”. In a concept he used before, Banksy tags the chilling wild animal with white, black and yellow letters and signs. If you look closely, you can see the initials of New York, the peace sign, and, apparently, the nickname Cope, which could be a tease to one of the local taggers. As reported by Animal New York, Cope tried to fool the residents days ago by posting an image on his Instagram account of what he claimed a collaboration with Banksy. Well, this is coming to an end. Get ready for Banksy’s farewell!

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