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Legendary Graffiti Mural Wiped Out On High Line
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Jen Carlson
Published Feb 22, 2010
Modified Feb 22, 2010
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Jen Carlson
Published Feb 22, 2010
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Photos by Jake Dobkin (L) and Vanishing NY (R)
Last year as the Friends of the High Line prepared to open the old elevated tracks as a park, it became clear that the graffiti that had long adorned the area wasn't going to be a part of the new luxury landscape. As such, the mayor's office began painting over what they deemed eyesores last April, a project that has continued as street art fanboys wearily kept an eye on the Revs/Cost mural on 23rd Street. Last year, Gothamist publisher Jake Dobkin declared: "if they touch the Revs/Cost Mural... it's war." Which may explain why he's not in the office yet... over the weekend, that mural was erased.
At Vanishing NY, they say with the mural's disappearance, we are simply left with "pub-crawlers and tourists... revelers whooping off the rooftops of luxury hotels"... and of course, exhibitionism.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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