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5 Pointz: The Institute of Higher Burnin' [1] or 5Pointz Aerosol Art Center, Inc., mainly referred to as simply 5 Pointz or 5Pointz, was an American mural space at 45-46 Davis Street in Long Island City, Queens, New York City.
Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.The neighborhood, partly built on low-lying land which had filled in the freshwater lake known as the Collect Pond, was generally defined as being bound by Centre Street to the west, the Bowery to the east, Canal Street to the north, and Park Row to the south.
Paul Kelly, founder of the Five Points Gang A slum tour through the Five Points in an 1885 sketch. The area of Manhattan where four streets – Anthony (now Worth), Cross (now Mosco), Orange (now Baxter), and Little Water (now nonexistent) – converged was known as the "Five Points". [2]
In 1979, Fab 5 Freddy and his graffiti partner, Lee Quiñones, showed their work in the Galleria La Medusa, in Rome, thereby putting graffiti on the art-world map. [ 7 ] The growth of graffiti in New York City was enabled by its subway system , whose accessibility and interconnectedness emboldened the movement, who now often operated through ...
5 Pointz, former warehouse and mural venue in Queens, New York City; Five points determine a conic; Five Points Correctional Facility, Romulus, New York; Five Points of Calvinism; Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture; Five-point electoral law; Five Point Plan, an American band
SJK 171, a.k.a. Steve the Greek (born c.1957) is a New York City graffiti artist who was active during the late 1960s and 1970s. [2] A native of Washington Heights, he was a founding member of United Graffiti Artists, one of the first professional graffiti collectives.
Michael Lawrence Marrow (August 2, 1955 – December 12, 2019), [1] known as PHASE 2 and Lonny Wood, was an American aerosol paint artist based in New York City.Mostly active in the 1970s, Phase 2 is generally credited with originating the "bubble letter" style of aerosol writing, also known as "softies".
Demetrius Blackwell – Convicted of First Degree Murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 2017 for the murder of New York City Police Officer Brian Moore in Queens Village, NY on May 2, 2015 (Moore survived the shooting, but died two days later).