Brooklyn Got 'Tagged' More in '08
With tighter city budgets, quality of life issues are bound to get worse. Case in point: Graffiti complaints in North Brooklyn were up 20 percent last year; arrests were up 24 percent. “It’s bringing property values down,” complained one Bushwick resident whose building is frequently tagged. In parts of South Brooklyn like Sunset Park and…
With tighter city budgets, quality of life issues are bound to get worse. Case in point: Graffiti complaints in North Brooklyn were up 20 percent last year; arrests were up 24 percent. “It’s bringing property values down,” complained one Bushwick resident whose building is frequently tagged. In parts of South Brooklyn like Sunset Park and Coney Island, complaints were up but arrests were down.
lol ditto.. i guess.
one of the skanks on Rock of Love Bus was a graffitti artist til she got implants. then she quit it because “it became too hard to scale up and down buildings” lol
sadly she got eliminated on the first episode 🙁
*r*
Much to the chagrin of Japan, graffitti has exploded over there too. I can remember seeing the first signs of it along the railway from Narita to Tokyo about 8 years ago. In tru Japanese fashion, it is never done to private property. That would be unacceptable.
rob – you’re wrong. I have an acquaintance who has a “fascination” with graffitti artists, especially white ones from central Europe. One of them was arrested when on his visit to her for doing some work, and another was cautioned and seemed to wriggle out of it only because the cops thought it was too much paperwork (vacationer etc).
sorry i dont think i meant victimless crime.. i think i meant.. what’s the name of the type of crime where someone isn’t physically hurt or something? i think forgot everything i learned from criminology class hahaha
*r*
“also tagging is a victimless crime”
Unless, like, you know… you own or live in the property defaced by spray paint.
Or you own property nearby, cause your property values will be going down as the people who think tagging is cool generally aren’t bidding to buy property.
Rob:
Walk over the Manhattan Bridge, when you get closer to Chinatown there are some buildings that have graffitti covering their entire roof tops, it’s a sight to see….it’s impressive in a dysfunctial artsy way.
Yes, I regard ‘some’ graffitti as art.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33969369@N03/3162727911/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33969369@N03/3163559138/
It is a crime when graffiti is sprayed on your property by someone else, without permission, and you then have to pay to clean it off. It’s no different than some jerk breaking your windows because they think the broken glass looks cool.
also tagging is a victimless crime (for the most part. i know some will argue that point).
ha. you know it just occurred to me.. you know who really might be to blame for this uptick again? suburban white kids who live in bushwick. if youve noticed there’s been tons of articles about how they love doing grafitti murals all around bushwick and stuff. the first article recently i read about i totally laughed my @ss off when i saw the pics and it was all skinny dorky white post adolescents-yet-not-quite-ready-to-be-adults guys pretending to be all street. of course they had their requisite face masks, protective coveralls so they dont get paint on their clothes, and vacant looks in their eyes as 10 chubby white girls with librarian glasses snapped pictures of them to put on their myspace. so that might be the new face of graffitti. funny when they do it, it’s not a crime :-/
*r*
You need to get tagged by the right “artist” – then your place may go up in value.