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# Another Day, Another #BanksyNY: First Piece Buffed, Audio Guide Down
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/another-day-another-banksyny-first-piece-buffed-audio-guide-down/
- Published: 2013-10-02T15:44:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:34:35.000Z
- Description: The new day brought with it a second Banksy, but now the amusing audio guide hotline appears to be down, and overnight the first piece went through a graffiti metamorphosis of its own.
- Author: Mostafa Heddaya
- Tags: News, Banksy, Better Out Than In, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

![banksy2](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/10/banksy2.jpg)

Banksy du jour (image via banksyny.com)

Yesterday, we [chronicled the debut of Banksy’s monthlong “residency” in New York](https://hyperallergic.com/banksy-surfaces-in-new-york-with-new-work-playful-telephone-hotline/), which launched with a piece on the Lower East Side consisting of two children reaching for the spray can in an official-seeming “Graffiti is a Crime” sign — and a toll-free number stenciled like a footnote nearby. The new day brought with it a second Banksy, but now that amusing audio guide hotline appears to be down, and overnight the first piece went through a graffiti [metamorphosis](http://blog.vandalog.com/2013/10/banksy-comes-to-new-york-city-first-piece-damaged-within-hours/?ref=hyperallergic.com) of its own. The inaugural work in this *Better Out Than In* series was first defaced by other artists (a new “Street Art is a Crime” sign replacing the original, [credited](http://gothamist.com/2013/10/02/new%5Fbanksy%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fwestside.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) to Smart Crew, was the most substantive change), then the whole thing, errant tags and all, [was buffed](http://gothamist.com/2013/10/02/photos%5Fbanksys%5Flower%5Feast%5Fside%5Fpiec.php?ref=hyperallergic.com#photo-1).

The buffer’s bludgeon missed the hotline number (1-800-656-4271) stenciled on an adjacent wall, though after calling it repeatedly throughout the morning, it appears that the line is either down or overwhelmed with calls. As a result, today’s text-based work, located somewhere on the west side of Manhattan according to the artist’s website, remains without the wryly edifying audio companion.

In addition to chronicling the works in the *Better Out Than In* street “residency” on his website, whose banksy.co.uk URL now redirects to banksyny.com, Banksy has also set up shop on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/banksyny?ref=hyperallergic.com) and [Instagram](http://instagram.com/banksyny?ref=hyperallergic.com). There is, of course, an official hashtag: #banksyny.

**UPDATE**: Animal NY is [reporting](http://www.animalnewyork.com/2013/banksy-rebuffed-while-another-pops-up/?ref=hyperallergic.com) that the piece is on West 25th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues.

**UPDATE 2**: RJ Rushmore of [Vandalog](http://blog.vandalog.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) has raised some reasonable doubts about the authenticity of the Twitter account, so there’s that.

**UPDATE 3**: The toll free line is back up, but there does not seem to be an audio guide entry for this second piece.

*View all our posts release to Banksy’s* Better In Than Out *show in New York throughout October* [*here*](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/better-out-than-in/)*.*