Graffiti, grafitti, everywhere…..from Paradise City Bar & Grill to Silent Cal’s

 

What does downtown look like to the visitor to Northampton?

Well it looks to me like it’s covered in graffiti, which is a definite sign of blight! and not just a little blight. lots of it everywhere you look. everywhere you go.

I took a walk starting in front of the new Paradise City Bar & Grill (formerly Del Raye Bar & Brill, an upscale restaurant that needed to downscale to survive!) and walked down Main Street, turned left onto Pleasant Street at Florence Savings Bank, and continued to Silent Cal’s bar.

the overpass above the sidewalk near Paradise City Bar & Grill

 

the truck eating overpass above the street

the wall on the sidewalk under the overpass

     

 

 

grafitti on the wall along the steps leading to Union Station restaurant

and more grafitti on the wall along the steps

and even more

 

side of the building on the corner of Main Street and Strong Avenue

steps across from Fitzwilly's restaurant

The entire stretch of Main Street from Strong Avenue to the lights (on this side of the street) is grafitti free.

Good work to all of those businesses in that stretch including Yellow Sofa, India Palace, Western Village Sports, Don Muller Gallery, Amanouz, and Spoleto!

Maybe some other downtown businesses can be inspired to be like you!

the wall on the back of Florence Savings Bank on Pleasant Street

 

on the side of Steals and Deals

and this blight continues all the way down the alley

grafitti on the offices of Springfield Newspapers. right across from Steals and Deals

also going all the way down

grafitti on the side of the Siam Square restaurant

 

and on the other side of the building on the side of Luna Pizza

and this grafitti goes all the way down the side of Luna Pizza

 

the front of "The Elevens" on pleasant street

 

and more on the front of "The Elevens"

Perhaps the most shocking grafitti encountered on this walk was on this building, not because of the abundance of it, not because it is especially ugly, overgrown and unruly, but because of where it is on the side of the District Attorney’s office!

There is plenty more grafitti in Northampton to report on, but this walk

and post ends here at Silent Cal’s on Pleasant Street, a bar located in

the former Chilson’s Awning building near the Union Station parking lot.