New York City graffiti exhibit, ... Armed with magic markers on a playground of subway cars and building walls, kids growing up in 1970s New York City picked graffiti as their game of choice.

For the past year, the famous Bowery wall has been overtaken by graffiti in a street art turf war harkening back to a bygone New York. "Oh my god is the climate of graffiti a mess,” says a local ...

In the 1990s, graffiti was a favored target of New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, who embraced the “broken windows” theory of policing, which held that aggressively ...

Society / Books & the Arts / In 1985, police were acquitted in the killing of a graffiti artist and painter, a grisly act ...

This “bomb” penthouse in Brooklyn is listed with graffiti left on bare walls — and for millions of dollars. The triplex condo atop 160 Imlay St. in Red Hook, priced at $2.99 million, is ...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) --Have you noticed? There’s been a visible increase in graffiti across the city recently, residents say—from Manhattan to Brooklyn and Queens. Last year, city sanitation ...

NEW YORK - Graffiti, once an underground movement in the '70s and '80s, has now moved above ground. In fact, "Above Ground" is the name of the new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York ...

In the early 1990s, the owner of an abandoned factory complex in New York’s Long Island City, Jerry Wolkoff, agreed to let graffiti artists empty cans of Krylon spray paint onto its walls.

Graffiti tourists are coming to New York for the bragging rights of tagging there. During the pandemic, some artists became brazen, painting buildings and walls even in the middle of the day.

(New York Jewish Week) — The graffiti scrawled on public bathroom walls may not seem like the highest form of art. But for Jewish comedian and musician Caitlin Cook, a particular phrase she saw ...