BSA Images Of The Week: 07.19.26

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! New York has endured a week of choking smoke from Canadian wildfires, 98-degree (37°C) heat, and pounding summer thunderstorms. Today, the FIFA World Cup Final arrives, briefly transforming the city once again. Bars in Argentine and Spanish neighborhoods are overflowing with fans, an estimated 50,000 people will gather before giant screens in Central Park, and across the Hudson, 83,000 will pack MetLife Stadium. The match has also turned the region into a temporary diplomatic capital, drawing President Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Spain’s King Felipe VI, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Yet New York has a way of absorbing even the grandest spectacles. While the sporting euphoria fills many spaces, someone in Jackson Heights is comparing the price of canned beans and reaching for the store brand, another is watering tomatoes at M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden on the Lower East Side, someone else is doing the week’s laundry at Ludlow Laundromat, while another is stretched out beside a rooftop pool in Williamsburg. As they say on Broadway, come hell or high water, the show must go on.

Here is our weekly interview with the street, this time featuring CRKSHNK, Debt, Hops Art, IMK, JerkFace, Little Ricky, Makatron, Sara Lynne Leo, SOOBEK, and Worst Timer.

Mike Makatron for East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jerkface gives his double Mickey a new look. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Talliah Lemper (photo © Jaime Rojo
ZOOT (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A pretty prime spot, now occupied by ZOOTER (photo © Jaime Rojo)
At 39, Lionel Messi is expected to play his final World Cup match today as Argentina faces Spain in the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final. It will be his third World Cup final and Trace Harris diefies him, while Degrupo reveals he’s cyborg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
“Then one day when the raccoon met a pigeon, and they knew that it was much more than a hunch…” Sara Lynne Leo / IMK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
IMK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SOOBEK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Little Ricky (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CRKSHNK goes there. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The power of the state, inked on acid wash. Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DEBT keeps it tight, and on fire. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
In memory of RONNIE. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HOPS ART refreshes this memorial mural of DNICE AND CHUNK. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
WORST TIMER (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NYC engulfed in smoke from Canadian wildfires. Summer 2026. (photo © Jaime Rojo)