Berry Street Williamsburg Art Mystery Solved

We knew there was something odd about the street art that popped up around the building going in next to 55 Berry in Williamsburg last week. Something about it told us the material on N. 10th and N. 11th Streets wasn't a standard installation of street art, but we had no idea what it was and did not have time to check it out, so we put the pics aside. Now, thanks to Jake Dobkin at Gothamist, who is one of the Number One authorities on the city's street art scene--and what's legit and what's not--the mystery is solved: the developer paid artists for the work. You can draw your own conclusions about whether it's an attempt to make the scaffolding look nice or to get some coolness points from the art. You can read the full explanation over at Gothamist.