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If you take the 7 train down to Long Island City, Queens, NY you’ll come across this amazing showcase of graffiti art – but you’d better get there quick because it looks like the building may come down in September 2013.<\/p>\n
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Described as the\u00a0centre\u00a0of the New York City street art scene<\/a>,\u00a05 Pointz is an outdoor gallery for the best underground art, and it has been attracting artists from around the world since 2001.<\/p>\n After the owner, Jerry Wolkoff, gave permission for artists to use the\u00a0derelict\u00a0building as a canvas, the walls have been continuously changing, with artists\u00a0providing\u00a0an ever-changing \u00a0display of new work.<\/p>\n The New York Times reports:<\/p>\n \u201cThese walls to me are no different than a canvas in a museum,\u201d said Jonathan Cohen, 38, an artist from Flushing. He is the primary guardian here, and the source of the billboard-size words painted on the main wall, \u201c5Pointz: The Institute of Higher Burnin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n That his piercing eyes are worried and his dark hair infiltrated with gray is directly linked to recent statements by the building\u2019s owner that 5Pointz is living on borrowed time \u2014 destined to be replaced by two residential towers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This unique graffiti gallery is scheduled to be demolished in September 2013<\/a>, with\u00a0high-rise apartments and a shopping mall taking its place.<\/p>\n See more photos from my visit to 5 Pointz in 2008 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n More info:<\/strong> If you take the 7 train down to Long Island City, Queens, NY you’ll come across this amazing showcase of graffiti art – but you’d better get there quick because … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,17,193],"tags":[34,197,566,1199,385],"class_list":["post-11501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-photos","category-places","tag-art","tag-graffiti","tag-long-island","tag-new-york","tag-nyc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/5-pointz-graffiti-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2Zv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11508,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501\/revisions\/11508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"New](\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/5-pointz-graffiti-2.jpg\")
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\nSee New York City\u2019s Massive Graffiti Mecca Before It\u2019s Torn Down<\/a>
\nWriting\u2019s on the Wall (Art Is, Too, for Now)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"