By Hannah Thomas-Peter, US Correspondent
UK graffiti artist Banksy has moved to New York for a month.
As part of a series called Better Out Than In, he has promised to do a new piece of work every day.
Eight days in, his residency has created quite a buzz.
Banksy-hunters pore over his Twitter and Instagram feeds, waiting for him to post a picture of the latest art.
Then the race is on to find it first.
We found Parisian tourist Marie Frelot looking at one of Bansky's latest works, a red balloon painted on a run-down wall in Red Hook in Brooklyn.
A rival street artist called Omar had already defaced it, leaving behind his signature.
The race is on to find the next Banksy graffiti Marie said: "It is beautiful still.
"This is what happens when art is living and breathing this way."
Underneath Omar's name, one angry fan wrote: "is a jealous little girl."
Street art fan Joe Ballard had come all the way from Kansas to see some of the month-long exhibition.
He said: "I've been to some other museums around New York and this is as cool as anything I've seen."
As we were talking a Japanese tourist checking her Instagram feed said Bansky had posted another picture, this time of a quote written in white letters on a blue door.
The only clue was the rough location written next to it - "Greenpoint".
Found: Fans get snaps in front of Banksy's latest work in Greenpoint We gave Marie a lift in the general direction, still not sure where we were going.
On the way she explained how she had seen all of Banksy's other works in New York.
She said: "It is a short-term work of art.
"If you see it, you are one of the happy few.
"If I could find this piece with you, I would be so excited."
Our cab driver Ivan Ivanov said he was a secret Banksy fan.
"It would be so crazy to find this piece - especially if we beat everyone there," he said.
A New Yorker tried to buy a door featuring Banksy's work After 20 minutes of aimless driving on the industrial back streets of Greenpoint we were close to giving up.
Suddenly someone using #banksyny posted an address.
We raced there and jumped out of the car to find a confused Polish builder.
As I grilled him about a white quote on a blue door two other people sprinted up to find out what was going on.
He said we were in the wrong place, but there were some blue doors around the corner.
Then another tweet popped into my feed with a nearby address, followed by another confirming the same location.
By now we were utterly caught up in the competition and practically elbowed our rivals out of the way to get back to our cars.
When we pulled up one person was already there.
Still, we felt semi-triumphant, even if the graffiti itself was remarkably small, and someone had already tried to scrub a bit of it off.
The owner of the building decided to cover Banky's latest work As a crowd gathered the attention got too much for the building owners.
They started covering the door with a metal sheet to boos and jeers.
One person shouted "You're going to sell it. Thieves!"
Another said: "I'll give you $1,000 for that door right now and I'll buy you a new one."
He explained: "His last piece sold for $40,000…. I'd happily take that home and hang it on my wall."
He didn't get his way, but Banksy fans won't have to wait long until the game begins again.
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