5Pointz, a Graffiti Mecca in Queens, Is Wiped Clean Overnight

Photo by Robert Stolarik for The New York Times

Usually, it is the graffiti artists who work under the cover of
darkness, hoping to evade police detection as they scrawl a tag on
property that is not their own.



But on Monday night, it was the owner of a building in Queens who used a
crew of painters to work overnight and paint over graffiti on a
warehouse in Long Island City, wiping