Photos: Personalizing a Trucker Hat With Old School Style Graffiti Lettering in Times Square

There were lots of hats and styles of custom art to choose from at their street booth.

During my recent visit to New York City, I stopped by Times Square and had the guys at NYC Custom Stuff personalize a trucker hat for me as a souvenir of my trip. NYC Custom Stuff. is located at 42nd Street, between 7th & 8th Avenue in New York City (across from the big blingy McDonald’s). Prices range from $15+.

Here’s a look at what it was like to get a custom hat from them:

First, you flip through a big book to choose what style lettering you want for your hat. Then you pick the color hat you want. I went for multi-colored old school style graffiti lettering and a bright blue hat.

They then ask you to write your name so they spell it correctly. I handed them my card which is shown here sitting on a box of their tools of the trade: graffiti paint markers.

Then they go to work.

It takes about 10-15 minutes for them to customize a hat, so while I waited, I took some pictures of their display hats that are decorated with familiar pop culture characters.

Here’s Slimer from Ghostbusters looking particularly vile with a cigarette.

And voila! Here’s me and the artist with my awesome new hat. Thanks guys!

photo by Terry Ewing

photos by Rusty Blazenhoff, unless otherwise noted