Cleaning 190 Bowery

Not sure if you've all seen, but if not, here are quite possibly the last photos of 190 Bowery covered in graffiti. The odd rumor that I heard -- which seems to be confirmed by the photo below -- is that the only piece of graffiti the building owners are leaving is the NEKST tribute on street level on the Bowery side. Not sure if there's a deeper connection there or if the owners just "like the way it looks" as is usually the reason for this sort of stuff. If that's the case, I have no idea why they would clean everything else.

Photos by Herman Yung