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Its been several months since our near run-in with the Splasher - or his/her impostor - and the street art "war" in Williamsburg / LES has sputtered to either détente or irrelevance (if it ever was relevant).

That said, with the recent 'demapping' (to borrow an Atlantic Yards term) of the North Sixth Street dead-end for Douglaston's The Edge development, a huge, plastic-woven cyclone gate now squarely punctuates the end of the block that for several months was ground zero for the Splasher conflict.

Mind you, we're not saying someone should decorate the billboard-sized terminating vista. We're merely predicting that within weeks - given the nice spring weather - it's likely that the gate will prove too tempting a canvas for neighborhood artists to overlook (note the existing tags came pre-installed: the gate is evidently certified pre-owned and officially recycled).

And given that Williamsburg speculators developers have taken to using street art as a selling point for million-dollar condos, maybe its time for a new well-placed Banksy...