The annual block party also features street artists painting live, food and merchant vendors, giveaways and more happening over three blocks in Bushwick.
Tributes are still coming in to the late MF DOOM, including a big new mural at Toronto street art supply store Toronto Collective in the city's Chinatown district.
The free event includes hand-selected local food trucks, a merchant market of vendors selling original art, prints, jewelry, clothing and more, face and body painting, meet and greets with ”old school graffiti legends,” live-painting from over 40 street and graffiti artists, and, of course, live music.
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