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 ...

Last night, the self-named "graffiti Mecca" in Long Island City, Queens 5 Pointz was covered over with white paint. Meres One, the curator of the street art spot for the last 11 years, has been trying ...

For the second time this week supporters and artists gathered at 5 Pointz in Long Island City, but rather than to rally for a last-ditch fight against the developers trying to raze the building, the ...

The Long Island City Parent’s Group has come up with an interesting proposal for LIC landmark 5 Pointz, the graffiti-covered warehouse its owners plan to demolish, although it’s still unclear what’s ...

The future of 5 Pointz might now be measured in weeks. A federal court in Brooklyn ruled Tuesday against an injunction that would have stopped the demolition of the graffiti and street art center in ...

When the famous graffiti site at 5 Pointz was shut down in 2013, it seemed to herald a threat to the city’s street-art scene. But as Chris Giblin reported last week, that art movement was never ...

It looks like 5 Pointz is going to leave ’em rhyming. This Saturday, the world famous graffiti Mecca, aka “The Institute of Higher Burning,” will hold a five-hour tribute to hip hop with live ...

was alive in Brooklyn yesterday, as a group of artists gathered to paint a 911 tribute wall, as they did each year at the famed Queens graffiti landmark. Dedicated to 911 EMT, FDNY, and FDNY, the ...

The saga of the 5 Pointz graffiti center in Long Island City continues. The site was whitewashed back in November but has not been put out of it's misery by wrecking balls yet. ANIMAL reports that ...

The graffiti mecca known as 5 Pointz in Queens will be razed after the City Council Wednesday backed a deal for new residential and retail space. The owners of 5 Pointz — a Long Island City warehouse ...

7, G at Court Sq.; E, M at Court Sq.-23rd St.; G at 21st St. To some, 5 Pointz is a glimpse of a comic-book page come alive, viewed fleetingly from the 7 while barreling toward Manhattan. Or it’s a ...