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 ...

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 ...

After months of court battles and two temporary stays of execution, a federal judge has refused to issue an injunction which would have prevented the owners of 5 Pointz, Queens’s self-described ...

5 Pointz, the largest legal aerosol art exhibit in the US is a cultural gem slated to be destroyed – but the artists won’t go down without a fight. Last week, the City Council approved the ...

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 ...

As you've probably heard, 5 Pointz is no more. Painted over. Whitewashed. Dead. "Maybe this isn't such a bad thing." We headed to Long Island City by earlier this morning to see how the erasure ...

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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 ...

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. Protesters converged on the former ...

"People look at me as crazy, but I can't see this being anything else," said Jonathan Cohen, the curator of 5 Pointz. "In my mind, we're going to be here. I envision us not going anywhere.

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 ...

Street art usually has a short shelf life. From the NYC Graffiti Free vans roaming the city, to the closing and whitewashing of 5 Pointz graffiti mecca late last year, and the destruction of ...