From the rooftops to the fronts and sides of buildings ... longtime graffiti defacing their front facades. Many of them believe that we exported this blight there from New York City while we ...

But in 1970s and 1980s New York, graffiti mostly conjured images ... to paint over the walls of a warehouse building complex he owned in Long Island City. The collaboration, initially known ...

large-scale graffiti in New York: 5Pointz, an outdoor graffiti gallery in Long Island City. In the early nineties, a building owner named Jerry Wolkoff gave graffiti artists permission to paint ...

But it became an art form in New York City, says Eric Felisbret, author of “Graffiti New York ... some artists became brazen, painting buildings and walls even in the middle of the ...

A New York graffiti art exhibit ... The whitewashing of the renowned graffiti haven known as 5 Pointz, a hulking warehouse in the Long Island City section of Queens, appears to mark the end ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A surge in gun violence ... At his press briefing, de Blasio was asked about removing the graffiti on the buildings around City Hall -- not City Hall, itself, which is ...

A dominant visual aspect of the day, graffiti widely spread around New York City at this time, with subways, building walls, almost anything being tagged by artists including Dondi, Seen ...

the developers of two large apartment complexes hope to tear the building down by the end of 2013, although members of the Long Island City community are fighting the demolition plans. New York ...

On Tuesday, commuters and residents of Long Island City, Queens, woke up to find one of the Big Apple’s most iconic graffiti buildings, 5 Pointz, completely whitewashed. Named for New York's ...

Gabriel Taussig, a lawyer for New York City, said the law ... covered subway cars and many buildings. Police 'concentrating on terrorism,' not graffiti “Graffiti is on the rise.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A battle is brewing ... You may have glimpsed it from the "7" train – a huge Long Island City building, a graffiti palace known as "5Pointz." It's a place where aerosol ...