“A cornerstone of the culture” is how Charm, a Brooklyn-based DJ-turned-artist, described 5 Pointz in 2011. And three years later, as we look back at this fall’s closing of the world’s premiere ...

For Eddie Rodriguez, better known as Snake 1, the best part of 5 Pointz—the soon-to-be high rise apartment complex in Long Island City, Queens that was once known as a graffiti mecca—was seeing his ...

A federal judge awarded 21 artists a whopping $6.7 million Monday for a developer’s decision to destroy revered works at the famed 5 Pointz art mecca in Queens. 5 Pointz in Long Island City on May 5, ...

Nicole Gagne doesn’t remember the fall itself, or any of the month that followed. She spent almost all of it in a hospital bed, pumped full of a painkiller that had the happy side effect of causing ...

On Sept. 11, a group of graffiti writers who became friends and collaborators over long days of painting the thick, concrete walls of 5 Pointz gathered on a bleak stretch of Bergen Street in Crown ...

A jury is set to decide whether works at the onetime graffiti mecca 5 Pointz count as federally-protected art — and if a real estate developer needs to pay up for their destruction. After about three ...

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First came the development plans. Then came the whitewashing. And now here comes the demolition. Animal New York reports that a backhoe arrived at 5 Pointz this morning and began tearing the graffiti ...

In September 2013, Long Island City’s graffiti museum 5 Pointz will likely be demolished, destroying two decades worth of aerosol art. As the Sunnyside Post reports, property owner David Wolkoff ...

The erstwhile 5 Pointz site in Long Island City is basically unrecognizable what with the two-tower development at the site now several stories above ground, a construction site photo by ...

Even Banksy couldn’t save this graffiti landmark. Furious street art fans were in mourning Tuesday after the owners of 5 Pointz had the graffiti Mecca in Long Island City whitewashed overnight.

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