Toronto Graffiti Crackdown on Queen Street
Sunday, March 6, 2011
It appears there’s been an official crackdown on graffiti in Toronto in the Queen Street West alleys. BlogTO had recently been tipped off from a local business owner that the City was issuing 152 removal notices from February 22 to March 3 to properties on Queen Street. Although at the moment there’s a lack of a detailed list of those served, some of the graffiti in question is reported to be murals that were previously commissioned by businesses.
When asked about the crackdown, Rob Sysak, a spokesmen for the West Queen West BIA, expressed surprise at the timing. “We were warned that graffiti would be targeted, but there was to be a detailed staff report before any action was taken. As it stands, most of these business have three days to comply.”
Unfortunately if there’s a graffiti crackdown in the Queen Street alleys, murals like these could potentially suffer the consequence of being removed.
Source: BlogTO
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I think we elected the wrong mayor. Rob Ford doesn’t understand the difference between art and his fat ass.
so they’re going to cover these amazing commissioned murals with a cast off cans of cream coloured paint and then toys like me are going to scribble “$TINKY ONE” and “DEF KID TWO” with a phatt cap “to make shit ghetto, word up!”
where is their sense of culture? oh yeah, it’s swirling around in the bottom of a Tim Horton’s cup.
i encourage someone to urinate on his car, post a video of it on youtube and make it go viral so the world can know what the people think of Rob “Fail” Ford… The War on the Car may be over in Toronto, but the war on Rob Ford’s car just started!
Someone should take a 600mL can of chromer with a pink dot and hit up Rob Ford’s office. Bring the war to those bitches; they wanna buff amazing artwork? They’re better off buffing Rob Ford’s wife’s pubic hair.
Smart thinking. It’s time all the toys out there stop having a place to practice their skills and put up around the city like they should. Yea! and more illegal Graff and all around chaos. Burn baby burn!!!!
Were you expecting something else?!
Omen makes a good point. There does need to be more illegal graffiti. Though it has always been nice to have a chill place like the queen alley to paint. Also good for writers who are passing through to easily know where they can paint.
Fix or re-paint daily
Everyone should just bomb the shit out of any wall that’s buffed!
DUMP FORD
If you paint over it, that same thing will happen. Shame, that’s some pretty art.
Rob Ford is a typical politician. Looking to make a difference in his four year term. So what does he do? He decides a good way to make it look like he’s accomplished something is get rid of some graffiti. Visually people can see he’s done something.
By the way that Owl is amazing!
Rob Ford forgets this art form was here yesterday, today and will be still here tomorrow. Go ahead prime the walls, but this don’t stop shit. Focus on the real corruption and stop pimping on your own city and the people that work their asses off to survive in it. City mayor is a city pimp….
CRUZ1