Graffiti legend dies in subway third-rail electrocution<\/h1>\n\nBy\u00a0Rebecca Harshbarger<\/a>
July 5, 2014\u00a0|<\/span>\u00a02:13am
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A well-known Queens graffiti \u201cartist\u201d was electrocuted by the third rail in a Brooklyn subway station, sources told The Post.<\/p>\n
Underground graffiti legend Jason Wulf, 42, was found dead on the tracks just before 10 p.m. Wednesday at the 25th Street Station in Sunset Park, sources said. It\u2019s unclear exactly what Wulf was doing right before he died, but the MTA said it is \u00adinvestigating the death.<\/p>\n
A pal said it was possible Wulf was \u201ctagging\u201d \u2014 or about to. When cops arrived at the scene, they found him alone, sources said.<\/p>\n
One source said Wulf had been heading from Brooklyn back home to Queens, where he lived with his fianc\u00e9e and their dog.<\/p>\n
Friends immediately began paying homage to their spray-painting pal by splashing his tag initials \u2014 \u201cDG\u2019\u2019 \u2014 in the subway station where he died.<\/p>\n
Extra cops were eventually dispatched to the 25th Street station Friday to keep the taggers away, so the friends began spray-painting Wulf\u2019s tag in other \u00adstations and even on mailboxes.<\/p>\n
They raised $10,000 online to pay for his funeral in just over a day. A wake for the underground artist will be held at Seneca Chapels followed by a funeral service at St. Matthias Church in Ridgewood, Queens, on Monday \u2014 and his casket will, fittingly, be white so that it can be covered in graffiti, according to an online posting by pals.<\/p>\n
\nHe had a talent that nobody had. It was more than tagging to him. It was an art. It was beautiful.<\/p>\n
\u00a0–\u00a0June Lang, Wulf’s friend<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nThe street artist had been painting subway cars and buildings since 1985, producing \u201ccanvasses on par with those found in the world\u2019s most prestigious art institutions,\u2019\u2019 one follower blogged after Wulf\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite his outpouring of creativity, he never embraced the art world or graffiti circuit. Although he sold canvasses, he represented that older-school breed of graffiti writer who had no interest in mainstream recognition,\u2019\u2019 the writer posted on\u00a0animalnewyork.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cHe also painted subway cars during the clean-train movement, a time period in the 1990s when many writers continued to hit trains regardless of the MTA\u2019s strict buff policy.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the founder of \u201cNWC,\u2019\u2019 or \u201cNew Wave Crew,\u2019\u2019 \u201chis tags, his throw ups, his fill-ins, his pieces, his canvasses \u2014 were all dope,\u2019\u2019 the writer said. Wulf\u2019s friend, June Lang, 37, of Maspeth, Queens, called the death \u201cvery sad.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"]()
<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>Wulf, 42, in an undated photo. Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cIt\u2019s devastating,\u2019\u2019 Lang said. \u201cHe had a talent that nobody had. It was more than tagging to him. It was an art. It was beautiful. He would do side walls for businesses. He didn\u2019t just do the trains; he did everything.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just spoke to him last week,\u2019\u2019 she added. \u201cHe made me a shirt and mailed it to me.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
But while hailed by some as an artist, Wulf repeatedly got into trouble with the law over his spray-painting.<\/p>\n
A police source said he had been arrested 13 times since 2008, including this past February for criminal mischief, graffiti and trespassing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Graffiti legend dies in subway third-rail electrocution By\u00a0Rebecca HarshbargerJuly 5, 2014\u00a0|\u00a02:13amPublished By: NY Post A well-known Queens graffiti \u201cartist\u201d was electrocuted by the third rail in a Brooklyn subway station, sources told The Post. Underground graffiti legend Jason Wulf, 42, was found dead on the tracks just before 10 p.m. Wednesday at the 25th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rip-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
By\u00a0Rebecca Harshbarger<\/a> <\/p>\n A well-known Queens graffiti \u201cartist\u201d was electrocuted by the third rail in a Brooklyn subway station, sources told The Post.<\/p>\n Underground graffiti legend Jason Wulf, 42, was found dead on the tracks just before 10 p.m. Wednesday at the 25th Street Station in Sunset Park, sources said. It\u2019s unclear exactly what Wulf was doing right before he died, but the MTA said it is \u00adinvestigating the death.<\/p>\n A pal said it was possible Wulf was \u201ctagging\u201d \u2014 or about to. When cops arrived at the scene, they found him alone, sources said.<\/p>\n One source said Wulf had been heading from Brooklyn back home to Queens, where he lived with his fianc\u00e9e and their dog.<\/p>\n Friends immediately began paying homage to their spray-painting pal by splashing his tag initials \u2014 \u201cDG\u2019\u2019 \u2014 in the subway station where he died.<\/p>\n Extra cops were eventually dispatched to the 25th Street station Friday to keep the taggers away, so the friends began spray-painting Wulf\u2019s tag in other \u00adstations and even on mailboxes.<\/p>\n They raised $10,000 online to pay for his funeral in just over a day. A wake for the underground artist will be held at Seneca Chapels followed by a funeral service at St. Matthias Church in Ridgewood, Queens, on Monday \u2014 and his casket will, fittingly, be white so that it can be covered in graffiti, according to an online posting by pals.<\/p>\n He had a talent that nobody had. It was more than tagging to him. It was an art. It was beautiful.<\/p>\n \u00a0–\u00a0June Lang, Wulf’s friend<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The street artist had been painting subway cars and buildings since 1985, producing \u201ccanvasses on par with those found in the world\u2019s most prestigious art institutions,\u2019\u2019 one follower blogged after Wulf\u2019s death.<\/p>\n \u201cDespite his outpouring of creativity, he never embraced the art world or graffiti circuit. Although he sold canvasses, he represented that older-school breed of graffiti writer who had no interest in mainstream recognition,\u2019\u2019 the writer posted on\u00a0animalnewyork.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHe also painted subway cars during the clean-train movement, a time period in the 1990s when many writers continued to hit trains regardless of the MTA\u2019s strict buff policy.\u201d<\/p>\n As the founder of \u201cNWC,\u2019\u2019 or \u201cNew Wave Crew,\u2019\u2019 \u201chis tags, his throw ups, his fill-ins, his pieces, his canvasses \u2014 were all dope,\u2019\u2019 the writer said. Wulf\u2019s friend, June Lang, 37, of Maspeth, Queens, called the death \u201cvery sad.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p> \u201cIt\u2019s devastating,\u2019\u2019 Lang said. \u201cHe had a talent that nobody had. It was more than tagging to him. It was an art. It was beautiful. He would do side walls for businesses. He didn\u2019t just do the trains; he did everything.<\/p>\n \u201cI just spoke to him last week,\u2019\u2019 she added. \u201cHe made me a shirt and mailed it to me.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n But while hailed by some as an artist, Wulf repeatedly got into trouble with the law over his spray-painting.<\/p>\n A police source said he had been arrested 13 times since 2008, including this past February for criminal mischief, graffiti and trespassing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_post_nav _builder_version=”4.9.2″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_post_nav][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Footer” _builder_version=”4.9.2″ background_color_gradient_direction=”90deg” background_image=”https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/footer-bottom.jpg” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” max_width_tablet=”” max_width_phone=”” max_width_last_edited=”on|desktop” min_height=”200px” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||true|false” global_module=”218″ saved_tabs=”all” locked=”off”][et_pb_row custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” _builder_version=”4.9.2″ background_enable_image=”off” background_position=”bottom_center” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||5vw||false” custom_padding_tablet=”||0vw||false|false” custom_padding_phone=””][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.2″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.2″ _module_preset=”default”]<\/p>\n Powered by WordPress<\/a> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Graffiti legend dies in subway third-rail electrocution By\u00a0Rebecca HarshbargerJuly 5, 2014\u00a0|\u00a02:13amPublished By: NY Post A well-known Queens graffiti \u201cartist\u201d was electrocuted by the third rail in a Brooklyn subway station, sources told The Post. Underground graffiti legend Jason Wulf, 42, was found dead on the tracks just before 10 p.m. Wednesday at the 25th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rip-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgraffiti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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