It's been about a year and a half since a fire ravaged the building on 7th Avenue between Second and Third Streets owned by artist Mark Ravitz, the home to at least seven of his signature "drips" over the past 34 years. It's nice to see that the building has been repaired, and a new set of drips has gone up on the facade.

This incarnation keeps the familiar motif of organic-looking melting globs (the piece on the lower left is a holdover from the previous installation), but this time pigeons make an appearance, in metallic shades of red, blue, purple, gold, and teal. The storefront remains vacant, well over two years since the MetLife Home Loans office closed its doors.

A remnant of the public art movement that took hold of the city in the late 1970s and early 1980s, these drips have been one of the most whimsical little quirks of the neighborhood for decades, and it's nice to have them back.