One’s at a strip club. One is held by cops. Another is heading to sunny Miami.
Nearly a month after Banksy’s “residency” in New York, his surviving works have met drastically different fates — and all have spiked in value.
Roughly half of the 30 pieces that the elusive British artist installed in the city through October have been destroyed, mostly by other graffiti artists.
At least six were salvaged by building owners. Those works are now valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“He’s a p.r. genius,” said Stephan Keszler of Keszler Galleries, which specializes in Banksy pieces. “The tour has helped Banksy find a collector base. At the beginning of his career, it was very much insider buying. Now more people recognize his name.”
Keszler’s gallery bought two of the pieces, including the “broken-heart balloon,” which was removed from a building in Red Hook, Brooklyn, after a vandal tried to destroy it.
The wall stencil of a red heart-shaped balloon taped with Band-Aids weighs 6,000 pounds and will be sold at the Art Miami festival in December — likely for $700,000 to $900,000, Keszler predicted.
The gallery has been in contact with at least six property owners in New York City who saved their Banksys.
“People say, ‘Oh, it was Banksy’s intention that art stays where it was created, out on the street,’ but if you leave it there, it will only be destroyed . . . Graffiti artists are jealous” Keszler said.
The whereabouts of the more mobile Banksys — including a truck filled stuffed animals and a mobile garden — are unknown, and a Banksy rep declined to comment.
The salvaged Banksys include a geisha mural in Williamsburg, a fake Plato quote sprayed on a door in Greenpoint, a cinder-block sphinx, and a truck door tagged with, “The grumpier you are, the more a- -holes you meet.”
An image of a man holding flowers stenciled on a roll-down gate at the Hustler Club in Hell’s Kitchen was removed by the joint’s owners and is being stored outside the city.
Owners had said they’d hang it inside, but that plan may have changed, said James Goll, a club spokesman.
“The piece is currently in Connecticut, where it is being decided whether it will be kept or go to auction,” he said.
Banksy’s last city work — balloon letters that spell out “BANKSY!” — is being held, deflated, in an evidence room at the 108th Precinct station in Queens, after a man was arrested trying to remove it from a Long Island City building.
Banksy’s surviving NYC artworks and their fates:
Oct. 7 Broken-heart balloon stencil
Where: Red Hook, Brooklyn
Status: Wall section removed, held in gallery, to be auctioned
Oct. 8 Fake Plato quote
Where: Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Status: Door removed, to be sold
Oct. 9 Image of horses in goggles with WikiLeaks audio
Where: Lower East Side, Manhattan
Status: Removed, to be sold
Oct. 17 Geishas and bonsai tree
Where: Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Status: Removed, to be sold
Oct. 22 Cinderblock Sphinx
Where: Willets Point, Queens
Status: Removed, to be sold
Oct. 24 Man with flowers
Where: Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Status: Removed, to be auctioned or hung in Hustler Club
Oct. 26 “The grumpier you are … ” tag
Where: Roaming
Status: Removed from truck door, to be sold
Oct. 28 Stencil of robot with spray-paint can
Where: Coney Island, Brooklyn
Status: Covered bymetal gate, plans unknown
Oct. 31 “Banksy” balloon letters
Where: Long Island City, Queens
Status: Deflated, held by NYPD
Additional reporting by Laurel Babcock