roux42 asks on the Prospect Heights Message Board:
“How long does it take for the city to clean off the graffiti, usually?”
“I was so unhappy to see it this morning. Since moving here, I have been so proud to have one of the grungiest BUT graffiti-free subway stations in NYC.”
Meanwhile, the Brooklyn Museum is promoting an exhibition of “graffiti as a phenomenon of modern urban life.” nychas grouses: “Our tax dollars at work… It is one thing to exhibit art that people might find offensive; they are not forced to look at it. It is quite another thing to encourage people to deface public and private property.”
So begins an inevitable pro-graf vs anti-graf discussion… vanilla says: “NYC has some of the most amazing graffiti in the world … I would rather see graffiti than live in a police state. aren’t there better things the cops could be cracking down on? …like my neighbors beating the shit out of each other, or the kids selling drugs down the street, guns and other assorted violence?”