Well, congratulations to New Era for sticking around. It was be perfect if other flagship stores could follow suit and move to downtown or Bflo.

New Era is a great neighbor and I am not picking on them. The last thing I would normally want to do is rain on their parade. They have nice employees and great attitudes. It is a great pleasure having many of them as my personal friends. Glamorizing graffiti is not good public relations. Glamorizing any attitude or behavior that inhibits the forward movement of Buffalo is not good public relations in this, our new era of high hope and expectations for our city. However, I think inviting graffiti vandals is a good opportunity for the Buffalo Police graffiti task force to collect intel. I am also planning on attending so that I can drag their sorry asses over to my place to help me remove their art from my building.

I appeal to our good neighbors at New Era to reconsider promoting graffiti at their December 15th event -for the city’s sake as well as for their own public relations ramifications. Can you imagine the news stores that would result from this decision? All of the good that New Era Cap has done will be overlooked and the stories will all focus on the stupid graffiti promotion. They did the right thing when they cancelled their production of custom gang hats. Remember? I have to believe that New Era Cap will reconsider and wind up dropping the graffiti promotion from their event.

Thank you. This has been a public service announcement.

Guys, I doubt they mean CRIMINAL Graffiti artists...it's probably artists who are stylistically "graffiti" but who are actually given permission by the property owners.

I heard they didn't really want the graffiti guys but the homeless urinators were booked.

Just joking. Happy anniversary New Era.