March 15 (UPI) -- New Yorkers woke up Thursday morning to find that mysterious graffiti artist Banksy tagged the city again -- this time adding the image of a rat to the front of a building set for demolition.
The rodent appears inside the clock face on a former bank building at the corner of 14th Street and Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village. The painting is reminiscent of a hamster running inside a wheel.
It's not the first time Banksy has tagged a blank wall with a rat -- the ubiquitous rodent New York City just can't shake. He painted one on a building in 2010 in Liverpool, England, and in 2008, he painted a rat on a parachute in Melbourne.
And in 2004, Banksy snuck into the London Natural History Museum and left a stuffed rat wearing miniature sunglasses and a microphone.
This is the first time Banksy has tagged New York City since 2013 when he had a monthlong residency and left spray-painted artworks throughout the city. He took credit for the new rat on his Instagram account Wednesday.
