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New York Graffiti – NY Graffiti & NYC Graffiti, focusing on graffiti that was started back in the 1970′s in New York City, Hip-Hop at it’s roots. New York Graffiti Clothing Line, Wearable Art! We are here to show you street art from Old School Artists to Current Artists. The site is dedicated to JUST New York which is...
Remembering…Stay High 149
Wayne Roberts, ‘Stay High 149’ in Graffiti Circles, Is Dead at 61 By DAVID GONZALEZ Published: June 12, 2012 by the New York Times Wayne Roberts was a pioneering 1970s graffiti writer known as “Stay High 149” who borrowed the haloed stick figure from the title sequence of the 1960s television series “The Saint,” put a joint in its mouth and...
Remembering…IZ the Wiz
Michael Martin, Subway Graffiti Artist Iz the Wiz, Is Dead at 50 “This is it…..This is it…” By WILLIAM GRIMES Published: June 29, 2009 by the New York Times In the 1970s and ’80s, chances were good that anyone traveling the New York subways rode at least once in a car emblazoned with “Iz the Wiz.” Cryptic but...
Remember 5PTZ
Remembering 5Pointz: A Five-Story Building That Told Plenty More by Bruce Wallace November 21, 2013 5:01 PM The walls of 5Pointz were once covered in graffiti. Artists worldwide came to New York to paint the warehouse surface. (Bruce Wallace for NPR) This week, New York City lost a cultural landmark. The site known as 5Pointz was a graffiti...
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We believe in respectful and responsible expressions of creativity and aim to cooperate within the community at large for mutual benefit, to help make an already great city even more beautiful. Because of this, we do not condone any kind of vandalism and embrace responsible creativity. We have a great appreciation and the highest respect for the many forms of graffiti art, BUT we do not condone illegal acts of any kind. This site is for visual pleasure and to help artists get paid for their talents, whether it is on clothing or in galleries.
