After a six-month battle with a shifty real estate developer in Long Island City, Queens, Jonathan “MERES” Cohen and a handful of his artists comrades left Federal Court in downtown Brooklyn with $6.7 million in damages in an unprecedented win for graffiti and street artists all over the world.
5 Pointz Art Gallery, which has served as a graffiti art centerpiece for NYC over the past two decades, but was unexpectedly taken away when the owners of the building destroyed the art without notice. The artists came off in a landmark victory for the artists and MERES decided to talk to TheSource.com about what he intends to do to continue the legacy of 5 Pointz.
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