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Richard Goldstein wrote a long essay for New York magazine that

Summary: Richard Goldstein wrote a long essay for New York magazine that featured the group  By 1973 the IRT redbirds were so covered in graffiti that fights began to break out in the graffiti community The city without realizing it gave the writers their canvasses back by painting the fleet silver with blue stripes Graffiti continued at an amazing pace as more innovations developed The first 3 D piece was painted by the legendary Brooklyn writer PISTOL 1 FLINT 707 followed it shortly with a 3 D top to bottom piece In some circles graffiti was beginning to be viewed as art Hugo Martinez the founder of United Graffiti Artists with COCO 144 as it s president   began to get media coverage for his stable of elite writers A list that and included photo s of PHASE 2 NOVA SNAKE 1 and all city king STAYHIGH 149 This article helped launch a whole new generation of writers 1974 More fame came to the New York City movement with the release of The Faith of Graffiti a photo essay book with arbitrary tags and pieces At a time when most of the innovations were coming out of the Bronx through writers like PHASE 2 RIFF 170 PEL TRACY 168 KING 2 and PNUT 2 The Faith of Graffiti focused on Manhattan included PHASE 2 STAYHIGH 149 STITCH 1   SNAKE 1 RIFF 170 JEC STAR BAMA SJK 171 however everyone agreed that STAYHIGH 149 got his  C A T 87 and others rightful props The first superstar crews   were gaining notoriety in 1974 They weren t as democratic as prior crews instead trying to put down the best writers possible The IND s and WANTED were sometimes interchangeable with writers like PNUT 2 and BILLY 167 hitting up both THE CRAZY FIVE led by whole car king BLADE developed their own unique style and dominated the 2 s and 4 s By the end of the year almost every type of piece had been painted and PHASE 2  retired as the reigning king of style 1975 The very rare title of all city king was handed down to three writers in 1975 If you stood on a train platform anywhere in the city in 1975 odds were that you were going to see the names TRACY 168 CLIFF 159 and IN KILL 3 Richard Goldstein wrote a long essay for New York magazine that featured the group  By 1973 the IRT redbirds were so covered in graffiti that fights began to break out in the graffiti community The city without realizing it gave the writers their canvasses back by painting the fleet silver with blue stripes Graffiti continued at an amazing pace as more innovations developed The first 3 D piece was painted by the legendary Brooklyn writer PISTOL 1 FLINT 707 followed it shortly with a 3 D top to bottom piece In some circles graffiti was beginning to be viewed as art Hugo Martinez the founder of United Graffiti Artists with COCO 144 as it s president   began to get media coverage for his stable of elite writers A list that and included photo s of PHASE 2 NOVA SNAKE 1 and all city king STAYHIGH 149 This article helped launch a whole new generation of writers 1974 More fame came to the New York City movement with the release of The Faith of Graffiti a photo essay book with arbitrary tags and pieces At a time when most of the innovations were coming out of the Bronx through writers like PHASE 2 RIFF 170 PEL TRACY 168 KING 2 and PNUT 2 The Faith of Graffiti focused on Manhattan included PHASE 2 STAYHIGH 149 STITCH 1   SNAKE 1 RIFF 170 JEC STAR BAMA SJK 171 however everyone agreed that STAYHIGH 149 got his  C A T 87 and others rightful props The first superstar crews   were gaining notoriety in 1974 They weren t as democratic as prior crews instead trying to put down the best writers possible The IND s and WANTED were sometimes interchangeable with writers like PNUT 2 and BILLY 167 hitting up both THE CRAZY FIVE led by whole car king BLADE developed their own unique style and dominated the 2 s and 4 s By the end of the year almost every type of piece had been painted and PHASE 2  retired as the reigning king of style 1975 The very rare title of all city king was handed down to three writers in 1975 If you stood on a train platform anywhere in the city in 1975 odds were that you were going to see the names TRACY 168 CLIFF 159 and IN KILL 3

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