Artful Compromise on Graffiti Battle
By Perry Santanachote | November 19th, 2009 | | 
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- Published in: The Queens Courier
Perry Santanachote
SCRAWL OF FAME: Queens merchants, tired of constantly painting over graffiti, are asking street artists to create murals.
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The city’s graffiti removal crews came and went several times, painting over the scrawls on the side of Manolo’s Mexican Restaurant on Greenpoint Avenue with an even coat of beige. Once, Mayor Michael Bloomberg even came to the Sunnyside restaurant to tout the city’s new graffiti removal program.
Nevertheless, time and time again, the black scribble crawled back across the brick, like spiders immune to pesticide.
Now, the restaurant’s owner, Manuel Morocho, 33, is considering a different, more colorful approach to his problem by inviting graffiti artists to paint his wall.
QUALITY I really like this blog, now im not 1 for adding links in my replies but I feel this is a great exception, I read a story like this about graffiti artist Darren Cullen on http://www.hire-a-graffiti-artist.co.uk/ he also works with another bunch of graffiti artists called the Graffiti Kings.