Remembering Scrap Yard Soho and Cold Downtown Streets

[@rimmy7121]

Hi this is Mark’s daughter. He loved watching this video and reading everyone’s comments! Maybe I’ll have my dad do a little youtube video talking his about memories of Scrapyard and the history of it. Would that be something you all would want to see?

[@becauseisedso1]

This should have been made a landmark ❤ it will definitely be missed by thousands of artist and writers

[@Eyezpretty]

Im glad i had the opportunity to go in there 👍🏾

[@JuanAgramonte-l5y]

Saying goodbye to the scrap yard is like saying goodbye to the five points building ❤

[@user-wo7dl6tb2q]

I moved to NYC in 1994 & left in 2019 during the lockdowns. I just returned last month for a week’s visit. They one thing I learned was how rapidly things change: from ur favorite store, restaurant, bodega, etc being open & thriving to walking by after a few months & the entire building is being demolished for some ritzy new condo build. The 90’s were amazing, LES was still a jungle & now it’s a fashion pop up ritzy area! I couldn’t believe even after being gone for 4 years how much the city has changed. All we will ever truly have is memories…

[@richard1849]

I. was one of those who moved to Bushwick when it all burn out stolen cars and packs of dogs among the deserted neighborhood. I left 6/7 years ago and when. go back to that hood now it reminds me of the village back then. Its crazy hope fast thee landscape changed there.. peace. stay up.

[@gisone6403]

Truth 💯

[@gisone6403]

Blast from my past. Great times!

[@rgw1380rw]

When I first heard of Scrap Yard, it was called Bomb The System. Pearl Paint was also another spot to go to back then.

[@michaelachillas80]

I met Mad Lion & KRSone at Pearl Paints, Those were the best days, I Met KAWS when he was doing his pieces around the corner from BTS, So many memories and such nostalgia. NYC memories will live forever.

[@gisone6403]

That's where I would buy the dope krylon colors.

[@RollingAlongNY]

I remember cutting school and heading down there as early as 94, great times. I used to buy magazines and the video graff tapes back then. I met a lot of real serious writers there. Then the walk over to Pearl Paint which is also gone. Teen memories.

[@giovannigomez9378]

Great video! Just spoke to mark this morning and sent him the video. Met some great people and made some great memories with stories for decades! Thanks for the shout out! Scrap yard forever!

[@KP-ec7mr]

I'm born and raised on the west coast and I heard of Scrap Yard because it was in Marc Ecko's Getting Up video game that I played as a kid back in 2005 😂 I visited the store 11 years after that when I did my first trip to New York and bought markers. It was dope to visit a store with such a deep history in the scene, especially since a vast majority of graff stores where I live didn't last anywhere near as long.

[@AllWeNeedIsUnity]

Thank you for the nostalgia induced dopamine hit!

[@defrocker0569]

I remember Yellow Rat Bastard

[@kahvinetic]

after the Soho Zat went down, that was the spot way before the sons took over...fond memories

[@graffaholics198]

That spray can x-mas tree was a nice touch.

[@carlosmoore614]

Ouick note 📝 back again. I remember vacationing one yr and took my sons there..i have it on vhs 📼 yeah I'm an old man and proud( no shame) my eldest son is now 34!! True 💎 gem indeed peace.

[@SlimJilm420]

Damn i'm bummed scrap yard is gone, legendary spot

[@TheMayorTravels]

i was going there way back in the early 90’s with my black book getting tags. down the street was pearl paint and also the polo store. also stuusy and phat farm wasn’t far. that’s area is legendary

[@legendaryharto]

thanks for sharing it dude, always is a pleasure see the fresh styles and listen your graffiti stories from the places i never be, keep it going gretings from Tbilisi

[@the-infinite-one]

Wow! Such a legendary and iconic store that brought so many iconic artists to one place. So surreal they closed.

[@carson8982]

R.I.P. what a bummer. Thank you for sharing some stories and history. Always hyped when I see an upload from you. You have been putting out very cool videos lately, keep killing it and Merry Christmas from California.

[@jakcough]

The stores inventory was dwindling down to nothing by the end of summer, the writing was literally on the wall for this place to close and it sucks to see it go.

[@Produced_by_Benie]

I visited New York City in maybe 2023, I didn't know squat about where I was. Turns out I was just going through the city, taking a train from Central Park to the nearest graffiti store. I came to Scrap Yard, not really knowing the history of it. Luckily I had skateboard with me, tried to buy spray paint but was only 17 at the time, so instead I got "The Lines Don't Lie: Forward by Ichabod", and after I bought it there was this bigger dude talking with the shop owner. He asked me if he could hit board so I handed him a uni I found down at some tracks, then he hit a "HEK" tag on my board. Later on, I searched him up and saw that he was a neighborhood local that was a valid writer and did commission work as well. For a California kid coming from a city that's only 8 miles long, a small town built on agriculture with a very small writing community, I got a real NYC experience doing what kinds have done for decades: hopping on the train and seeing what they get into. Thank you Scrap Yard, for being the focal point of that day.

[@carlosmoore614]

Mannnn i remember back in "84" when i 1st visited this place, you are right ✅️ that place was a museum!!(tear). Met this guy named camp 🏕, and this guy felon( might have worked there, but let me tell you, i stood outside for awhile and katz would be stopping in my sketch book 📖 got roasted!!! Could wait to get back cleveland 216 to show other up coming writers here new york styles of tagging( hence tagman), throw ups, piecing!! Just incredible!! And i visited for the stickers, lil toys, and to extend my book library. Still have some stuff. I would say to the last owner and past that every writer( I'm gonna say it correctly) , every artist 🎨 that steped through those doors 🚪 were instant stars!!! Could he have found a smaller spot???😢 got my first tribal tee, still have it( sleeves cut off that's alright). Bought alot of wst apparel!! Shout out!! No other place like it. Took a trip to da bakery( when it was open) nice but not like the scrapyard. You guys were truly 👏 💐!!!! Have to find another spot. Not just for the paint, but for all the little intricate stuff!! Neva made it to yellow rat 🐀 bastard, heard it was nice. Sir you are mad crazy appreciated 👏 💐 if know one's told you. I am!!! Hold on, & support your local mom&pop stores!!! Will miss it for sure😢😢 please find another store front.😊 salute 🫡 and 👏 💐 hats off, kudos to ya!! Peace brooklyn to cleveland!! The tagman scf/mk Brownsville never ran never will!! Out.

[@evilskwerl]

Damn were the same age same era. Got mad memories there. Even when it was scrap yard, I still and always will call it bomb the system. ✌️

[@Mrs.B76]

So I used to cop my markers and graff style books from the scrap yard. I can't believe is closed.

[@Thetownsmaer]

That pink notice 🔥

[@bxvideony]

Going to miss that store. Got my hard hat stickers of hot babes and some cool graff tshirts

[@EvaFangoria]

I went there in 1996. They had small figures as well. I still have three, small, Ma. K figures from there that I've never seen anywhere else. The place was just filled with cool shit. Still have some graff mags as well.

[@Dév0x5762]

I still have Dirty Handz 2, I collect old graffiti vhs tapes 😊

[@redhoode.n.y.6314]

My man👍

[@Eyezpretty]

I don't know if you remember a hip hop group called the artifacts 💥 They were from Jersey

[@TheGraffitiWanderer]

Go back in my channel… I have on of Tame One’s last video appearances

[@TheGraffitiWanderer]

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[@TwoFeetOutdoors]

Merry Christmas!!

[@K.greenbanks]

R. I. P. 😢

[@mixedhairless]

Thanks for the memories

[@michaelachillas80]

I met Mad Lion & KRSone at Pearl Paints, Those were the best days, I Met KAWS when he was doing his pieces around the corner from BTS, So many memories and such nostalgia. NYC memories will live forever.

[@TheGraffitiWanderer]

@@michaelachillas80 those are definitely good ones…

[@monkeyshredder.musicismyso3626]

HENRY CHALFANT'S STUDIO WAS AND WOOSTER ST ,ONE BLOCK OVER FROM SCRAP YARD. GREAT GRAFF MEMORIES

[@Vcor9090]

Yeah..I remember as young kids in the 80's,knocking on Henry's door to let us come in and hang out,checking all the flics he had.Great memories.

[@sandpaper4483]

That sucks good memories of that place.

[@Jimmy-oq9zq]

I remember getting Style Wars there

[@Thegodenzyme]

Damn scrap yard was the fuckin best will definitely be missed 💯

[@EsDriving]

Weird fact. There was an awesome man working at BTS behind Mark at least for a few years named Osama who explained to me some days soon after he was standing in front and the airplane flew over his head heading south on 9 one one. Cash is king with the secret pocket was dope work. Tribal tees i feel like i had them all back then. Original Echo in the 90s . I had a few of those tees too. I don’t remember buying any of them here for some strange reason. I def remember the Cost and Revs across the street. I feel like years later there was a peak under it, i may be wrong. RIP Saga.

[@redhoode.n.y.6314]

U know ya shit u was outside👍👍

[@EsDriving]

@ salute.

[@Ragoreafa]

Big fan of the videos man , I'm a London writer Respect to New York From UK Man 👊

[@kennysrecordcollection9573]

Great work

[@johnoconnor5924]

I purchased my first TANITA scale from there & baggies

[@Watchmen93]

Crazy that it closed down I met alot of writers there memorable ones are Sf Cope and Fritz

[@anthonycharles8920]

Gonna definitely miss that spot.

[@redhoode.n.y.6314]

Dam as a 15yr old my shit was tsy all the way from bk i'd ride the train to get fat caps the latest video graffs ect and always stopped at "blimpies" for a sub which was around the corner at the time.. Met hell a writers that i would see go all city soon after that store was iconic.

[@K.greenbanks]

The booth was the spot there where two of them one by street one by scraps gate by the gate side.

[@Ragoreafa]

Wish I was able to have been to this shop man

[@nycgweed]

nice job , live close by and enjoy freeman alley all the time

[@Asekrtagzz]

0:55 I see my sticker above my friend skims sticker buts its ripper off almost, wish this place was still open

[@cavanfarr]

Really awsome videos lately thx. I've been looking at stuff in London they are no joke these days. I also seen really cool paintings by( Busta) here in philadelphia look at 5th and columbia (Cecil b.) If your here. Busta has a nice one down there.

[@monkeyshredder.musicismyso3626]

I NSTILL HAVE CANS I BOUGHT FROM THEM.THEVE BEEN AROUND FOREVER AND A STORE CALLED SOHO ZHAT WAS ACROSS FROM HERE. MY BOYZ WEB AND STAFF ROCKED A WALL AT THIS STORE I JUST MENTIONED.TRUE WRITER'S LANDMARK.

[@bradleygrunner]

Orbie was in Forbidden Art video.

[@GioRockon]

GR4 🎉🎉

[@the1hitwanderer]

I went to that shop in the mid 90s on a visit to NY from the midwest. I'm pretty sure it was called Bomb The System at that time. I picked up 2 VideoGraff VHS tapes that were highly influencial to me. I'm still active to this day well into my 50s and living in another country. Thanks for all your vids and documenting= Stay up!

[@gisone6403]

Who remembers the Sub & Gaze Abandon all hope wall?

[@13453R]

Damn.... Henry's studio was right around the corner. Is that gone too?

[@JWFdocumentaries]

good documentation. Check out Quality Of Life part 4 to see it in documentary film form!

[@brianm2811]

So where is there in nyc a similiar store like scrap yard???

[@DavidMadeira29]

It looks like an old Sheldon is not really happy of looking back at it from a doctorate's perspective. Namastè.

[@justinbristol8315]

RIP.

[@chillyourself5208]

Went from being a dope store to an awkward tourist trap

[@TheGraffitiWanderer]

Saw your comment about Nekst… Trying to downplay someone’s accomplishments after they passed is pretty soft on your part… you probably feel left out or something… I was there when he first started painting New York with Sace R.I.P… they really pushed the envelope in the sense NYC was just throw ups on gates and pieces… Nekst did some of the craziest spots before everyone else then people realized hey I should go bigger also. Also the whole last generation of Detroit wave he sparked all that… you sound lost….

[@chillyourself5208]

​@@TheGraffitiWanderer I actually confused him wi sace, who was the wealthy one LOL. Ya no love for millionaires playing the street game sorry, not when so many without rich families put down as hard or harder and die unknown... To me you're lost, you a wana be writer than dont write and rly just some bozo standing on the sidelines. If you knew who i was you'd prob ask for an autograph 😂

[@mikeneverready8217]

Damm rip scrapyard been going since 92-93 ran into some writers there we met legendary mitch77 there he had a magazine out and we was toys new in the game and he showed love another time was wit my boys and went ahead to slap that phone booth rite in front of the door yo...so I turned to see if any one saw me in scrapyard and cope and mark are looking at me from inside I said dam so my boys walk up we go in as cope goes out I said I wish I had my blackbook...I heard few people got caught there and beat up I would love to hear them story's RIPPEARLSPAINTSRIPSCRAPYARDRIP5PTZ

[@TwoWheels_OO]

Nice video

[@JasonStrout]

R.I.P Hybrid.

[@MentalPistol]

Where did you get the news that Scrap Yard is closed permanently? I cant find anything on it

[@TheGraffitiWanderer]

I just showed the hole in the gate in the video… the store is empty

[@MentalPistol]

@@TheGraffitiWanderer I was asking because when you go on their instagram, it says "closed for construction". So I was wondering where everyone saw the news that it was shut down.

[@eddiemoney6625]

I used to sell mixtapes out of that store.

[@TheGraffitiWanderer]

💯💯

[@J-RBM]

CLOSED DOWN daMMM.MAKES SURE YALL GET A PIC.

[@curtisferrier9822]

🔥 Personal question how old are you?

[@curtisferrier9822]

Loving all this history your very knowledgeable graff head

[@mikeneverready8217]

Forgot to metion rip to that phonebooth i used to cop that big on the run marker and crush the inside RIPPHONEBOOTH

[@johndaviddoesmith4504]

It’s gone?!?! Though somehow I’m not surprised

[@johndaviddoesmith4504]

Spent sooo much time down there on canal in that area then lived right around the corner for years

[@johndaviddoesmith4504]

Soooooo many great productions in that parking lot over the years!!

[@JasonTooth]

Not doing stickers in any weather mayn?! Cmon!

[@Davester74]

Is there any other graff stores in New York

[@rgw1380rw]

There are a few, but nothing like Scrap Yard.

[@Davester74]

@ Dam wanted to go visit New York earlier this year and Scrap Yard was on the list, but something came up so I couldn’t go. That blows

[@irod7635]

Yo let me get some stickers!!

[@Outtatime247]

Happy holidays bro. Is it possible to get a pin somehow? I sent you some stuff a while back. Ok take care thanks for the videos.

[@TheGraffitiWanderer]

@@Outtatime247 what did you send? I don’t have anymore of those pins. But remind me again if I do make merch again… right now I don’t have anything..

[@carson8982]

@@TheGraffitiWanderer I would love to give you my money for a graffiti wanderer hoodie!! Hahaha

[@Outtatime247]

Sent you a small box with photos, zines, can…i started collecting pins and remember you had some. Ok take care

[@Outtatime247]

Lmk the address again i want to send you another one! You collect old paint?

[@TheGraffitiWanderer]

@@Outtatime247 where are you from? Hit me up on IG

[@Zerostayschilling]

Soho zat

[@noahjackson7626]

P!

[@ECHONWC]

Soho Zats. Mark was always cool.

[@ECHONWC]

I use that bathroom all the time lol

[@Mrpinky-yg1qu]

First been there in 94.. mey cameraman carl there

[@chaseboogie3559]

Thanks for sharing. I wish I knew they were closing, i would have went there one more time.🥲. I used to cut school starting in 8th grade (this is 1997-98) and would go to Bomb the system to buy caps and graff magazines and ask random writers to hit my black book, then go look at all the bombing around Canal and Soho area. AOnes and Setup were big at the time. Magical days that we will never get back. What camera are you using?? If you dont mind me asking, really good quality footage.

[@sunsetman321]

Soho Zat 💯🫶🏼 Third Rail and Lords of Brooklyn Tshirts I had one Tales from the Rails it has holes in it now Phat Beatz

[@redhoode.n.y.6314]

Dam as a 15yr old my shit was tsy all the way from bk i'd ride the train to get fat caps the latest video graffs ect and always stopped at "blimpies" for a sub which was around the corner at the time.. Met hell a writers that i would see go all city soon after that store was iconic.

[@TheGraffitiWanderer]

Blimpies 🤣 yup forgot about that one