After an earlier exterior stairway collapse this year that injured a fellow artist resident, the New York City Department of Buildings issued a notice for all tenants of 5 Pointz, NYC’s graffiti-laden structure in Long Island City, to vacate. As of now, it looks like those tenants and artists won’t be moving back into the building once maintenance is complete because the city will not issue a new certificate of occupancy for the building. This means that the owner of 5 Pointz will probably have to paint over all of the graffiti there and turn the building into a standard factory.
Gothamist took one last look at the interior and exterior of the building and has pictures of it to show. My own photos from this place are on a harddrive somewhere…I should dig them out just for memory’s sake.
