Top street art in New York City
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Map of street art in New York City (United States)
The city's graffiti scene grew in the 1970s across the South Bronx and Brooklyn. A 1971 New York Times article on TAKI 183, a Washington Heights teenager tagging subway cars, brought the movement into public view, and Tracy 168 developed wildstyle lettering on transit trains as graffiti evolved alongside rap and breakdancing. By 1989 the MTA had cleared the last tagged train, pushing artists onto street walls.
Bushwick in Brooklyn is the main creative hub, with murals renewed on Jefferson and Troutman streets through the Bushwick Collective, founded by Joseph Ficalora in 2012. Harlem's Graffiti Hall of Fame at 106th Street dates to 1980, and Manhattan's Houston Bowery Wall is a long-established landmark. Hunts Point in the South Bronx maintains a strong community mural tradition.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (SAMO), Keith Haring, and TATS CRU are the scene's most iconic figures. The 5Pointz complex in Long Island City, Queens, curated by Meres One until its whitewashing in 2013, was a global landmark; a 2018 ruling awarded artists $6.7 million. The annual Bushwick Collective Block Party each June and the Welling Court Mural Project in Astoria are today's principal street art gatherings.
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Mural femme cycliste arc-en-ciel Eduardo Kobra
Eduardo Kobra
New York City, United States
05/05/2024
