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I got this tattoo for my mom, she passed away this Halloween. She called me Goosie, ever since I was really young, and swirls are my favorite thing so I got this goose that incorporated parts of both of us. I know it was her nickname for me, but it’s like having a piece of her right on my arm keeping an eye on me.
I got it done at Yonkers Ink in Yonkers, NY. My tattoo artist was named Eddy (I am pretty sure that was his name at least) and he is AMAZING. So chill and he has been an artist for years and years and has been tattooing for three years. His amazing art was displayed all around the store, he does airbrush and painting and he’s great. He’s a perfectionist and I recommend him so highly. He made sure the lines were delicate but thick enough to see, and that they were all even. I’m so happy with it.
In 2008, when Neal Bodenheimer first walked into the building he now owns on the corner of Freret and Upperline streets, there were pigeons living on the second floor. A gone-to-seed renovation that had converted the century-old firehouse into an office space obscured the cypress ceilings…