I was underwhelmed when my friend Ted (who is working on a hip hop documentary) dragged me along to see some graffiti. As I explained, very eloquently I might add, "I can see graffiti outside my place in Brooklyn". Turns out this is a mecca for graffiti lovers that I would never have stumbled across. Right outside the 45 court sq stop in Queens is a block sized area called 5 PTZ. Despite the fact that tagging is still illegal, people that believed and loved the art of it started looking for a place to do it anyways and this was it. From the 80's on, this building/block has turned into a sort of tourist site/monument/living and evolving art piece. Granted you usually can't take pics of people working and there is serious application process for artists that want to display their art.
So long story short we randomly ran into different groups of French break dancers and watched a dance off between them and some local New Yorkers. Here are some pics, let me know if it whelms you to go, just where a mask...some of those fumes are INtense.
