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    The Graffiti Mecca to be Demolished

    By ahassoun  |  Posted August 23, 2012  |  Long Island City, New York
     

    CNN PRODUCER NOTE     ahassoun recently moved to Long Island City, New York, not far from the 5Pointz Aerosol Art Center, a graffiti-covered warehouse that has attracted artists from around the world to paint on its walls (with permission of the owner). With hundreds of murals, its curators call it 'the world’s premiere “graffiti Mecca".' The iReporter visited the warehouse on Tuesday and said the details of the pieces are 'amazing.'

    'If you look at them, you get goose bumps,' he said, adding that the beauty of the complex is that artists are there all the time, painting new works. 'It's renewable art,' he said. 'I can go there in another week or two and see some more pieces.'

    The site is slated to be replaced by high-rise apartment buildings next year.
    - dsashin, CNN iReport producer

    The owner of Graffiti Mecca "5 Pointz" is planning to replace this icon with two residential high-rise buildings in 2013. The walls of this internationally acclaimed building hosted the paintings of artists from around the world. Despite Long Island City residents' opposition, Mr. Wolkoff is going ahead with the plan. Some may call graffiti, an act of vandalism. But for some New Yorkers, it's a free, constantly renewed art museum. You should visit and judge yourself before this building goes to history.

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