Graffiti returning to New York City

[@CV-nn7jj]

Graffiti on subways will be next. Just like the good old days 😉

[@bravesoul5743]

Yeah just like the dirty old days!! 🤮

[@bolada2247]

Theres already lots of graffiti on the subway, check the video "we run nyc"

[@db-rc5fr]

It adds a little culture 😉

[@dannybx78]

The return of the graffiti era.

[@helsuzfascis8713]

...not

[@samash1704]

Graffiti is low on my list of priorities. Lock up the violent criminals.

[@ronstar7027]

Glad you enjoy it. Coming to your neighborhood next.

[@clarkhull7546]

In alot of ways it goes hand in hand. If this is something you enjoy in your backyard/neighborhood your nuts.

[@randomshit65]

@@clarkhull7546 y’all are mad ignorant if you think it goes hand in hand .

[@clarkhull7546]

@@randomshit65 any neighborhood that has block to block graffiti is sure to be rundown and crime ridden. You can deny it all you want and it's still a fact.

[@antihero105]

I live in one of the richest zip codes in my state and we have a ton of graffiti, always have. Neighbor literally has a functioning Indy car mounted above his fireplace lmfao. Graffiti doesn't = crime

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

it sounds crazy but i want new york city to be like in the 80s and early 90s

[@moduke580]

Fax

[@Papabandana]

Oh boy…you sure as SHIT will regret it.

[@rollzolo]

Painting them over creates a fresh canvas. can't win.

[@dameoner3693]

Sure does 😂😂😂

[@vectwon6767]

Very true. Nothing like a fresh wall to tag up. But the issue isnt just graffiti. Stickers are probably more prevalant and those are harder to remove. With all these graff and stickers out there how many arrests do you think they have for vandalism? Honestly i feel like if there were more patrols in all cities crime would go down but i hardly ever see police besides on highways or 711. I rarely see them doing rounds in the places ive lived. Nj ny ca. How many people know their local police?

[@dameoner3693]

@@vectwon6767 oh nooo not the stickers 😂😂😂

[@MyMiserableLife]

Art owner at the end essentially said he doesn't mind graffiti, along as its not on his property . That's what I took away from that. And you know on Twitter they are pro blm and antifa but just not their property .

[@EricDaMAJ]

Democrats are eager to spend everyone's money but their own.

[@nicholase1256]

He is taking about graffiti as art not random tags. Real graffiti artist paint legally on property that they have permission to do so on. I live in a small town in Tennessee and over the past year or so we have had a lot of professional artist come in and paint really beautifully murals on the less attractive buildings and the whole town looks a million times better. Those artist had permission from building owners unlike these hideous tags everywhere. He is right, tagging a mailbox adds nothing to the community as opposed to real street art. I really don’t see the issue with his statement.

[@johannsmithe2570]

@@nicholase1256 In graffiti there's tags, throw-ups, pieces, ranging from small to large in size.Tags can include gang related script. Sounds like your town has murals. Thing is *tags* need to be removed as soon as possible within a few hours or more will follow by other tag writers. Similiar to a dog marking its territory. It is up to the business owner to remove the graffiti a.s.a.p., if nothing esle by sratching the tag with a line to discourage graffiti. Its a long process the *community* has to do together. Local police have programs to educate people to counter graffiti. Waiting for the city to do something is too little too late. Notice the photo of Andy Warhol on the gallery's wall. Jean Baquait was Andy's boyfriend who was a famous NYC graffitist so the gallery owner was careful not to alienate any potential customers by speaking categorically against graffiti. If the gallery paintings shown in this news report are typical then he sells high-priced graffiti and doesn't appreciate the free competition on his property. He's not opposed to selling dreck he just doesn't want to eat his own dreck. That's for everyone esle. And there's the bind or catch-22 he's caught in. He can't remove the graffiti he promotes without exposing himself as a fake to his hipster clients so he needs the city (taxpayer) to do his dirty work. Depends how much he contributes to getting them off their butts. SoHo is pretty ritzy. Graffiti has been literally all over the city but if it hits SoHo then it gets on the news. If it was TriBeCa there wouldn't even have been a newscast.

[@larrylamonts1483]

He basically said he liked shit on legal walls and murals. That shit wouldn't exist without quick tags and fill ins.

[@Herogaze]

he was saying he doesnt mind if they do actually works of arts. But the random bubble letters and tags that aren't art, he doesn't like.

[@bartenderzzz]

I love it! It reminds me of old school NYC.

[@noodlehat3250]

Why not have graffiti........ You had a Mayor who painted a whole street.

[@gailmargret23]

I remember nyc in the 80's. graffiti everywhere.

[@kayskel5610]

Tagging. The most classic and under appreciated aspect of graffiti

[@kevinrodriguez9701]

That Chicken scratch bull shit is why graffiti is hated by the public. I’m an x writer and I was never into that bullshit side of graffiti, do fill ins instead with clean letters. If you’re not bombing or piecing then you’re just giving graffiti a bad name.

[@philspd473]

Break dancing and boom boxes next...

[@lwrncjms]

I can tell you don't ride the trains a lot

[@goodbrothersteve]

Hahahaha 😆

[@SplashAttackTCG]

*Hell yeah! That’s 💯 better than all the violence in general, especially the gun violence.*

[@bcampbell1826]

Well, You did bring up the subject and I just wanted to follow up with recent News. www.qchron.com/editions/queenswide/stereo-wars-police-address-noise-issues/article_495fd54a-bdbd-53e8-a805-846f4f496481.html

[@hibiscushoney3759]

Yyyyyeeeesss the 80s back.🥴🥴🙈

[@dylanhom58]

Not mad at it at all, been awesome to see throwups and pieces from writers I hadn’t seen up in a while

[@JesseJudah144]

Blind & Lost

[@johnruvolis874]

Crime will double by this time next year.

[@tomalex1612]

High crime , high taxes , high prices seems like paradise

[@victorrodz3]

Lol

[@hercher4072]

nyshitty

[@jhowardsupporter]

Just paint a mural of Fentanyl Floyd and it will be fine.

[@ezekel.4656]

NYC is back to what it was in the 80’s. So sad.

[@jameslivergood348]

The 80s was awesome in NYC. Full of creatives. It's so corporate now, its nauseating.....

[@mayhemmike1789]

NA NA NA! You got no clue how fucked up NYC was in the 70s - 80s

[@jpjpjp453]

@@jameslivergood348 You must be from somewhere in the MidWest.

[@Bachconcertos]

1970s

[@dylanhom58]

You have literally no idea what you’re talking about lol

[@wolfhunter6711]

The Mayor painted BLM graffiti on the street. So what do you expect?

[@ronstar7027]

I am glad NY is enjoying the leaders they voted into office.

[@remylauren7604]

theres people getting slashed daily but yes clean up the graffiti and there will be no more crime

[@r.i.pyoutube6881]

I hope that’s sarcasm

[@remylauren7604]

@@r.i.pyoutube6881 it is. i cant believe the news and politicians are trying to say that graffiti in a area is the cause of the crime. graffiti should be the last of there worries and focus on making things safer for people

[@vectwon6767]

Yup gonna be taxed out nyc resident pockets too just for it to be tagged up again. Graffiti is not just ny. Its worldwide. I hate people blaming politics. Graffiti cant be stopped unless you take away walls and paint. Stickers became the new graffiti for those that want to express but cant draw lol. I think the issue is the police are allocated incorrectly. We need more patrols. What happened to those. I wanna see the same officer bob or whoever roll down my street like clockwork 7pm every day or so i know we are being protected. This will also help build relationships. How could i do this if i never even seen a cop in my neighborhood(i live in cali now).

[@DoubleJabSlipRightHand]

It's art but if it's on a black owned business it's a hate crime that needs a special story and an FBI investigation

[@MasterMark14]

U sound hurt

[@vectwon6767]

@@MasterMark14 he's probably not lol. Its just a hypothetical he threw out there that has nothing to do with the actual issue so he can show us how stereotypical he is.

[@qcbeast478]

Back to the good old times

[@jerrygreen520]

#djzartan

[@jhowardsupporter]

@Noone Cares Your thinking of street artist. The ones who buy their paint and dont smoke meth right? Yeah those are street artist. They work on commission and don't bomb trains and stuff like that.

[@drewroddy]

@@jhowardsupporter there are train bombs? Where??

[@JimmyFoxhound]

Wait a second.. are you telling me defunding the cops and backing out of areas with high crime rates DIDN'T improve things?? WHAT???

[@jameslivergood348]

Cops aren't defunded.

[@rjhornsby]

shoplifting, vandalism, simple assault, arson, car jacking + felony murder, and beating the hell out of people because they wore the wrong color hat are petty crimes that don’t actually hurt anyone. Obviously. Prosecuting these silly, harmless kids is racist.

[@vincentsprung5810]

They removed $1B from nypd budget. Many cops quit or retired. They removed certain task forces, including the unit that would patrol the subways in plain clothes. And what would you know, crime has Skyrocketed. Shocking results

[@blazeroranger]

@@jameslivergood348 so you voted for dems and Bidentard?

[@mrpeanutbutter6094]

When it’s a British guy name banksy. No problem. Feel free to express your art

[@redhoode.n.y.6314]

💯

[@one.2622]

@C C what is art?

[@nicholase1256]

I think we can all agree that Banksy's work and these random tags aren’t even on the same pallet as far as good art goes. I would much rather have street art that actually looks like something rather than these unattractive tags. Not a single piece shown adds anything aesthetically to the area.

[@mrpeanutbutter6094]

@@nicholase1256 I think that these kind of work inspire banksy to draw his art in the city. Banksy saw them as maybe disgusted art but he took spray painting to the next level.

[@dylanhom58]

Lmaoooooooo at everyone who arbitrarily decided they get to decide what’s art and what’s not art

[@runwayray]

Graffiti is the sign of lawlessness. Make these perps pay the price. The clean up Corp should be a chain gang of graffiti criminals undoing their destruction. Then pay a massive fine and jail rent. If New Yorkers must pay top dollar for rent, then so should prisoners pay rent while in jail. Why should law abiding New Yorkers pay!

[@reggie93441]

How about locking them up after...I saw this garbage on a cemetery mural..shameful

[@runwayray]

@@Remy1of1. Are you fucking kidding? These assholes are causing businesses to leave, those are jobs that are leaving because graffiti. Graffiti means crime. Destroying personal property, building owners getting fined, not to mention it look like infantile shit. That’s why New York will be the next Detroit.

[@runwayray]

@@Remy1of1. The jerks destroying people’s property are the same as the one causing the increase murder rates, the robberies, attack on Asians, burglaries, drug trafficking. It was in the past and now returned. When these aholes are caught graffitiing, their rap sheets are longer than the walls of China. I respect other people and their property, so do many New Yorkers. These graffiti perps don’t. It’s one thing if a business hires someone one to do graffiti art for their business statement, it’s another when it’s your house, apt building, mail box , train etc.... tagging to advertise crime

[@runwayray]

@@Remy1of1. then if I’m so wrong, why is there a mad exodus from NY to states that don’t tolerate crime and anything that resembles NYC’s crime atmosphere? So you think people like to pay the highest taxes in the nation, get police defunded and mayor that cares about criminals than good New Yorkers. Not to mention having everything they see defaced with infantile graffiti. That’s batshit crazy. Just like millions of New Yorkers that left, you can keep that shit. You can pay for it too. I just feel bad for the ones who want to leave but can’t because they can’t afford it or for family.

[@thomastessier4529]

"Escape from New York" is closer than many think.

[@justme5923]

This is what democrats Re-Imagine the police and social justice Invision

[@hackattack7811]

This is what happens along with rising murders, assaults and other crimes, when you have the WORST mayor in NYC history. We need Rudy back

[@MattSezer]

Also the mayor who had the fewest murders per year he was in office since 1959.

[@hackattack7811]

@@MattSezer Also the same mayor who's wife can't remember where $850,000 went for the mental health program she was in charge of.

[@reggie93441]

Rudy or Mayor Bloomberg I will take either one

[@zhang6449]

@@reggie93441 Yeap

[@pedicabfilms8791]

The gritty 80's are here. Wow...

[@user-wr9lh4ly1n]

Deblasio ruining Giuliani's hard work

[@VILEPAINTS]

Graffiti keeping customers away? No, no one wants overpriced bs anymore since all their specific clientele has moved away lol

[@lasttwhisper]

just fine someone who does graffiti 10k and they dont do it

[@reggie93441]

We need to fine anyone for this sh..t $10,000 I mean in my area there is a gamestop store with graffiti,the owner replace the gate with a brand new gate, 1week later that new gate get tagged annoying

[@remylauren7604]

people love extreme punishments until its them or there family. i dont think unoe how easy it is to be the victim of extremely poor police work. just hope nobody who looks like does graffiti and you get caught up for it.

[@manuelcanete823]

Defunded the police 👮‍♀️ they said

[@gmkhn66]

There is a difference between vandalism and "graphiti" (art type). One is beautiful and adds to the space, the other is to deface and destroy.

[@clarkhull7546]

If you enjoy graffiti keep it at your house and graffiti it all up as you please.

[@dylanhom58]

The vandalism is an element of of the art, all graffiti is art

[@xoxoxoxoxo7997]

It's all vandalism and ugly

[@gmkhn66]

@@dylanhom58 no, i disagree. A crumpled up news paper with a dog turd in it can be called art, but is it really?

[@dylanhom58]

@@gmkhn66 maybe. I bet if you showed 100 people 100 different pieces of art that recently sold for $10,000+ all 100 people would claim at least 5 of them weren’t art. That’s the beauty of art, nobody gets to tell anybody what is it isn’t art, any creation that makes the creator and observer feel something can be art

[@heha9752]

A growing “problem.” LOL. People need to chill. Graffiti is part of NYC culture. This isn’t Houston.

[@devintaylor8702]

YES THATS THE ORIGINAL ART OF HIP HOP ITS ALSO COMMON IN NEW ORLEANS TO SEE GRAFFITI IN THE DOWN TOWN AND UPTOWN AREAS😊👍🐢

[@MariaD-qf4sr]

No one wants that trash and you young ppl haven’t lived long enough to know how trashy it was a mural cool graffiti no art straight trash

[@MariaD-qf4sr]

@@devintaylor8702 bc you like trash? Graffiti isn’t art when they do murals then that’s art get your young life right

[@SIKE01]

when was the last time you saw low level criminals in NYC doing community service, such cleaning graffiti and highways??

[@ThirdDimensionalBeing]

We can argue til we are blue in the face about graffiti, but it won't go away. Plenty of people have built up a murderous rage over shit like this. If we are to remain objective, some graffiti looks great, is in a spot considered acceptable, and can generate positivity and creativity. Other times, it's scrawled onto people's property, and is more a selfish endeavor only made to satisfy themselves and others who don't mind being called a vandal rather than artist. People are going to make anything into what they want. With or without consideration and regard for others. That's how we are as humans. Always doing whatever the fuck we want. Many examples that are not as black and white as graffiti.. don't work yourself up, there are bigger fish to fry.

[@philipaltamore331]

blame the mothers of these people that do this

[@sdella1910]

Rudy where are you?.... this is the work of democrat run cities....Baltimore...Chicago.... LA ...shall I continue?

[@abe9483]

Houston, Miami. Oh yea

[@ci310]

His ass on his way to jail.

[@YoursTrulyMew]

Nothing like the sweet smell of aerosol paint in the air 💀 ʢ• ͡•ʢ• ͡•ʢ• ͡•ʡ

[@jorgeecheverri6805]

get the criminals to clean that shit up, smh

[@summertime11413]

All that's missing from this scene are burnt out cars with the hub caps missing standing on cinder blocks, and vacant Tenements with smashed out windows. Now THAT was the New York of the 80's .... which sadly appears to be returning!

[@aoasupply2197]

graffiti tells you what areas are actually lit in your town . its always been that way

[@LI-fh1it]

Grab your GUNS everyone it's Graffiti. I dont know what's more dangerous, Graffiti or seeing Hipsters in Bushwick, lol.

[@MariaD-qf4sr]

So ghosted scare you? Grow up

[@scorlin7516]

Graffiti is the worse form of "art" in existance

[@vincentsprung5810]

Especially when they write their little words or sayings. No one can read what they wrote and even if we could, no one gives a shit.

[@reggie93441]

Absolutely I can't stand it it's a freaking eye sore

[@ronstar7027]

Rap "songs" are tied with garbage art, garbage cans.

[@Sjaubi-qf6wd]

SEEN allot of White guys doing it

[@johnjohn8365]

Yea its always the man setting them up

[@theo21021]

Actually have seen white females doing it in the middle of the day.

[@clos3078]

A lot of Maga country tags.

[@Sjaubi-qf6wd]

These guys were very prepared they hade paint and pictures of tags in cases looked to be in their late twenties look to be foreign

[@kore6078]

Where did it go?

[@HeichH1]

Ruuuuuuuudyyyyyyyyyyyy Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@GranFinale]

Alright everybody, on board the time machine back to the 1980's, YEAHHHHH 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@boringlyawesum]

i don't see nyc ever electing another republican to clean up the city again

[@111danish111]

You voted for this New York.

[@bigmacdaddy1234]

Welcome to NYC, the home of slashers, train pushers, drugs addicts, graffiti and rat infested restaurants.

[@range94]

Ironic the owner of an art gallery moaning about graf...i'm guessing if it was nicely presented in his gallery he would be ok with that...or if a something by banksy was on a wall i'm sure it would be viewed differently

[@darkmatter5424]

NYC (and the whole of US) deserves the politicians they voted for.

[@rocketklein4332]

More graffiti less violence

[@chloestewart1902]

I LOVE NY GRAFFITI ♥

[@xF0rC3DxK1LLAx]

Soho is known to be HI Hats turf

[@Joseph-lz5er]

Instead of focusing on punishing criminals from drawing graffiti on the streets, they are planning to clean them up. Only to have them return and draw graffiti's back in the streets few weeks later smfh.

[@charliedrake247]

This makes the area a shit hole dangerously close

[@jesussavesnyc]

Graffiti is not returning to NYC, Graffiti was always in NYC

[@Eblis840]

You're a F'in Legend.🙏

[@DoggieNYC]

It never left.

[@coldcrush9]

Mac King is a dope graffiti name

[@yommish]

People are so easily outraged by this shit. “The city has been taken over, police are defunded, crime is rampant, we need military NYPD rule!”

[@DoubleJabSlipRightHand]

I had 3 people arrested for graffiti on my property. They were caught with 22 spray cans in their bookbags, several bags of coke and 4 knives.. 2 months later I recieved a letter from the DA saying the case was thrown out "due to COVID".

[@fgentertainment9468]

Who cares

[@RobertoLopezstudyis]

Thank the mayor of NYC for ruining everybody's life in the Big Apple!

[@mmedefarge]

Yes, they put it on and you take it off and you keep taking it off until they give up.

[@Musicradio77Network]

Those takes me back to the 1980’s when graffiti was everywhere in buildings, subway cars, everything.

[@edvinsalguero621]

Did you enjoy them or look at them at disgust? In general do you think a city needs graffiti to look nice besides neon Signs and architecture, or a city with graffiti needs to be removed because it makes it look ugly?

[@Mathmatics_O]

@@edvinsalguero621 I think most graffiti makes boring things look way more interesting. As long as it is not on cars houses places of worship or graves it looks pretty nice!

[@kadeenmadeit1069]

we gotta start from the roots guys, start off tagging apartments then when we get a good graffiti following that has lots of people tagging we can go to the tunnels get back the trains we can revive a whole scene this year.

[@maidinmanhattan7820]

My looks disgusting and the crime is awful

[@edigabrieli7864]

Soon Tambores and drumming are going to replace cell phone communications in NYC.

[@tootsieshmutsie6428]

@edigabrielli, don't you like outdoor live music?

[@thedisgruntleddyslexic7806]

1:58 I feel like he does not know the difference between a graffiti artist and street artist. If you know you know.

[@nz-bass-head6306]

Cant be stopped

[@beautifullyoucouture]

Graffiti is from artists not BLM...but ignorance abounds. Couldnt be bored youth, closed businesses or lack of activities but yeah BLM though, because anything else like the pandemic was too difficult to be part of the cause.

[@cherylspencer3662]

I really think street artist's should get some PAPER!!

[@pzkpfw6864]

When do we get the flat tops and British Knights back?

[@suntzu6122]

So give them 'free' walls and ban advertisers taking advantage of it. Graff artists making jobs.

[@meiabmx]

amazing !

[@Eblis840]

Oh no! Not Soho 😭

[@sprsmoke]

New York, New York

[@dannybx78]

Welcome back to the 80's NYC.

[@DubCmusicTV]

The mayor?? Got no plans

[@tommydukes1979]

NYC has waayyyyy bigger problems than graffiti... take those clean up "resources" and allocate them to the NYPD... matter of fact, ill just run for mayor and do it myself.

[@zhang6449]

Graffiti is the least thing to worry about right now. I can't wait to get out of the city & leave under a tough Republican mayor.

[@patswayze7359]

Quality of life is very important says the guy selling alcohol to people. Which causes more damage to people lives the writing on something.. and the crooked politician have some balls

[@JoeBuck207]

Bring back Rudy Guliani as Mayor.

[@overcity9thquardant709]

*ITS NOT A PROBLEM* ITS AN EXPRESSION FROM A SYMPTOM OF THE ABUSE ON SOUL

[@antihero105]

Stop buffing my shit out smh

[@michaelbirdsong196]

History repeats itself . NYC the birthplace of graffiti

[@kevinrodriguez9701]

Chicanos were doing graffiti back in la since the late 40’s early 50’s. New York was just the first to go public nation wide with the airing of style wars about graffiti.

[@michaelbirdsong196]

@@kevinrodriguez9701 thanks for the history . Did not know La went back that far

[@ChrisLagos77]

Let's make NY Great Again......Rudy come back !

[@ivun215]

1:16 such a sick old school Pear tag

[@takumifujiwara7160]

Graffitis been here forever and always will be, get up stay up

[@pacmanLINY]

Graffiti is great

[@ronstar7027]

You probably think that hardware in your nose is great as well.

[@pacmanLINY]

@@ronstar7027 idk what hardware means exactly

[@clippersnapper1706]

grafitti in the "hood" of soho? wtf???

[@Khultan]

These New Yorkers are totally stooges.

[@stephencalamita3384]

Who cares, Billy’s got this don’t worry

[@luislaplume8261]

Break the graffiti taggers hands. That will stop them.

[@harrychu650]

Gangs marking territory. Who owns these streets?

[@albeit1]

Fear not, folks. Dumblasio is on the case.

[@Abrock730]

"Graffiti in da hood"/"BLM"! Stop the nonsense!!! Turk 182 did it!!! SOHOs not the hood!

[@lurkintracks]

Graffiti is part of nyc

[@johnnydang9227]

DAMNNNNN.. FAT JAY been putting in WOORRKKKKK....

[@alfredoandroid357]

Its never left and the city was vacant for a year