When you take the 7 train which transfers you from Flushing, Queens to Manhattan, look out the right side of your train near 33rd St. Station in Sunnyside. You will see so much graffiti on the buildings along the 7 train track. Numerous buildings are covered all over with graffiti, including the areas of steep and high terraces, tops of the buildings, broken windows, and every else where that graffiti artists are able to draw.
But Sunnyside neighborhoods do not welcome graffiti artists. The Sunnyside United Neighborhood Network is seeking to ban graffiti works and to clean up them in area of Sunnyside. “There is a lot of graffiti that has crept back into our neighborhood,” said Julie Story, a Sunnyside resident. “The vandals must know that illegal graffiti is not welcome in Sunnyside!!”
for more information about Sunnyside United Neighborhood Network, visit http://www.sunnysidechamber.org/members/antigraff.html
I know that some graffiti can be considered as vandalism but it is art. Especially if it is not gang related.
It’s almost impossible to stop graffiti in the trains. Another big problem is the train scratch or “scratchiffi.”
I am personally amazed at the places people do graffiti. I wonder how they get to these places, especially high buildings and elevated train tracks. And also, when do they do this?
I did a paper on graffiti before and I did some research that in Singapore if someone does graffiti they will face harsh punishment, which I don’t recall what that punishment is.