In the 1980s, artist and musician Peter Missing blanketed Alphabet City with his “Party’s Over” icon. An upside martini glass with three strikes crossed out, it was widely seen as a protest against gentrification. Missing, who relocated to Berlin in the early 1990s and lived there for many years, now lives in Copenhagen. He recently created this graffiti mural, more than 50 feet long, in the garden-like First Park, at Second Avenue and E. Houston St. With Beth Israel Hospital reportedly downsizing and possibly closing, to be possibly replaced by luxury condos, among other things, it increasingly looks like Missing was right — the party really is over!
