Even the elusive British street artist Banksy got into the act.
The site is noted in foreign guidebooks as the hippest tourist attraction in Queens.
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5Pointz doesnt exist anymore.
For the next two decades, the five-storey warehouse developed into a world wide art tourism destination.
Jonathan Cohen came into the scene in 2002.
After 40 years of abandonment, the Wolkoff family decided to develop the 5Pointz site into a thousand-unit condominium.
But Jonathan Cohen was not to be pleased.
Those walls will remain white.
He destroyed the artwork and the biggest tourist attraction in Queens.
The building after it was whitewashed.Photo credit
Sources:5ptz.com/Wikipedia/NY Times/NY Post
