Pouring out of the buses with shotguns and pistols drawn, the officers forced milling pedestrians against tenement walls and fences, where they were searched.
The stories contained in the tenement walls, Mr. Guzman said, were all too familiar.
Rainbows of graffiti form a psychedelic backdrop behind him on a tenement wall.
Were it not for the texture, which is as nubbly as old paint on a tenement wall, this landscape would qualify as Luminism.
Mention lead paint, and most people think of children eating paint chips that have peeled off tenement walls.
Through A Blue Lens documents a year of life and death on the street and behind tenement walls.
And then he chalks anti-Semitic graffiti on a tenement wall on Goulston Street!
Gravestones rest along the tenement walls marking the outer perimeter.
A chill suddenly rippled through him as he remembered the blood- written graffiti on the tenement walls and the strange, almost transparent eyelids of those stricken people.
The tenement walls were stained black with soot and pollution and accumulated grime.