Dec. 8, 2010 By Christian Murray
Last month, a mural popped up on the NW corner of 40th Street and 47th Avenue, on the side wall of a real estate agency.
The artists responsible for the work belong to a group named Smart Crew USA, a NYC-based team of artists/vandals that are known for their art and tagging throughout the city. Most of the members of Smart Crew are from Queens.
A representative of Smart Crew said in an e-mail that they did this “as a favor to a friend” who owns a business nearby. The business owner had been complaining about the wall being tagged, according to the e-mail.
“We just put up something that most people would consider ‘nicer’ …to deter the less visually-appealing graffiti.”
