{"id":290292,"date":"2026-07-08T14:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290292\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:31:09","slug":"taylor-swift-fanatics-are-buying-cubes-of-nyc-street-trash-collected-around-msg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290292\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift fanatics are buying cubes of NYC street trash collected around MSG"},"content":{"rendered":"

An enterprising NYC artist is capitalizing on the hullabaloo around Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce\u2019s Madison Square Garden wedding<\/a> by selling small plastic cubes filled with literal garbage to Swiftie fanatics \u2014 including cigarette butts, straws and even a discarded ovulation test kit for $25 apiece.<\/p>\n

And the trash cubes have already sold out.<\/p>\n

Justin Gignac has been gathering refuse from city streets surrounding the World\u2019s Most Famous Arena since last week\u2019s closed-door ceremony, betting that pop music\u2019s most parasocial fans will open their wallets for the privilege of owning their very own piece of Taylor-adjacent trash.<\/p>\n

Swifties have quickly bought up the supply of \u201climited edition\u201d trash cubes loaded with rubbish gathered in Midtown Manhattan after Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce\u2019s July 3 wedding extravaganza.<\/p>\n

The bizarre gamble has paid off, with Gignac saying he\u2019s sold more than 1,300 one-inch-by-one-inch-by-three-quarter-inch litter-stuffed cubes across 30 countries.<\/p>\n

The trash cubes, alternately labeled \u201cNew York City Garbage\u201d and \u201cNot Invited Edition (Taylor & Travis\u2019 Wedding),\u201d have been flying out the door as fast as he can create them, even at the lofty price tag of $25 plus $10 shipping.<\/p>\n

Artist Justin Gignac, who has been peddling New York City street trash since 2001, has sold over 1,300 of the cubes.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach sculpture is carefully arranged and sealed so it won\u2019t leak or smell,\u201d the online listing<\/a> assures would-be customers. \u201cAnd signed by Justin at the bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gignac put on a tuxedo, armed himself with a litter picker and went around Midtown Manhattan after the ceremony to collect items such as bottle caps, discarded plastic utensils, an orphaned AirPod, and a Ring Pop, then packaged them up and sold them on his website.<\/p>\n

One cube even contained an ovulation test kit, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s garbage on the floor after the party. Collected from the edge of a love story outside Madison Square Garden, as close to Taylor & Travis\u2019 big day as you could\u2019ve gotten without an invite,\u201d the website listing reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the debut of Pocket Garbage, so you can carry a piece of the greatest day of your\u2026 I mean, their lives, wherever you go.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cubes commemorating the star-studded wedding have sold out, with buyers in more than 30 countries.<\/p>\n

Gignac has sold other \u201climited edition\u201d garbage cubes to commemorate the New York Giants\u2019 2012 championship parade, the Yankees\u2019 2009 parade and other noteworthy Big Apple happenings over the years.<\/p>\n

The star-studded July 3 wedding, which saw several New York City streets shut down, was attended by over 1,000 guests, including A-listers<\/a> like Brad Pitt, Ed Sheeran, Reese Witherspoon, Steven Spielberg and Adam Sandler, who officiated the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An enterprising NYC artist is capitalizing on the hullabaloo around Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce\u2019s Madison Square Garden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11709,222,57,9,56,63,65,64,1473,15839,58,6496],"class_list":["post-290292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-celebrity-weddings","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-taylor-swift","tag-travis-kelce","tag-us-news","tag-weddings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}