Is this a joke or something worse?
It seems unlikely that anyone would think the speed limit in Chestnut Hill is over 100 miles an hour. Still, this small act of graffiti could be seen a few different ways. Is this a harmless prank, or part of larger problem to be address? What do you think? Is this a mark on Chestnut Hill or just a little piece of civic pride?
Is this a joke or something worse?
It seems unlikely that anyone would think the speed limit in Chestnut Hill is over 100 miles an hour. Still, this small act of graffiti could be seen a few different ways. Is this a harmless prank, or part of larger problem to be address? What do you think? Is this a mark on Northwest Philly or just a little piece of civic pride?
Many of the tags are around various populated corridors.
About 18 graffiti tags have been recorded by an East Mt. Airy resident over the course of the past couple of weeks. D. Kelly O'Day, who has been writing about graffiti near Sedgwick Station on his blog, said in a recent report that the 18 locations throughout Mt. Airy were found to have graffiti since May 15. Some of them have multiple tags. RAS13 is the most common tag, with 17, while there were four SCOOP TG$ tags throughout the neighborhood. The screenshot at right shows all the areas that have been recorded by O'Day with graffiti since Feb. 19. "Graffiti incidents seem to cluster around corridors," O'Day wrote. Those include Germantown Avenue, Stenton Avenue, Chew Avenue, Lincoln Drive and SEPTA stations. In the past two weeks, there …
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The Friends of the Wissahickon do not know where they came from.
Graffiti problems in the area have spread slightly beyond Mt. Airy as well. Friends of the Wissahickon (FOW) Volunteer Coordinator Dan Mercer has been organizing teams to remove orange markings that have been spray painted throughout the Wissahickon. But while the marking can be removed, FOW is wondering how they got there. The group posted an inquiry on Facebook March 22 asking if anyone knew how the marks came to be. "Orange mystery tags, like the one pictured, have been showing up throughout the park recently," the post said. While orange markings on trees typically signal pruning, trimming or removal, these marking have appeared on benches and concrete fixtures in the park as well. FOW is asking of anyone has any information on the …
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5:41 pm on Friday, April 6, 2012
I'd be interested to hear how one goes about getting spray paint off of a tree. Assuming these tags are spray-painted on, of course. more ›
Seminary security director said it's the first time he's ever seen graffiti there.
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia security director Vince Ferguson witnessed something recently that he had never before seen in his 14 years there. "(There's been) graffiti on campus," he said at an East Mt. Airy Neighbors (EMAN) board meeting Tuesday. Yes, graffiti. It's been popping up near the chapel plaza, transformer boxes and near the Boyer Street perimeter. Similar graffiti has also been appearing near Sedgwick Station in East Mt. Airy. Neighbor D. Kelly O'Day has been documenting that graffiti on his blog posts. Ferguson said the graffiti appears to all be similar and often seems as if it bears a specific tag. O'Day has reported the graffiti to SEPTA, which often removes it relatively quickly. 14th Police District Capt…
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D. Kelly O'Day is working on the issue.
Graffiti drawn on various structures near a SEPTA station has been removed by the transit agency, according to an email from a neighborhood activist. SEPTA removed the graffiti on the wall last week after Kelly O'Day, who lives on Durham Street nearby, sent a message to officials alerting them of the problem. The agency restricts public access to the tracks and to the East Mt. Airy bridge for safety reasons. That's where the graffiti was painted. That's why SEPTA has to be the one to do the removal, which happened in the early part of last week. But the graffiti returned just a few days later (over the weekend) on a shed at Sprague Street and on the bridge. And O'Day sent another email to SEPTA. He praised the agency for its work but said …
Steve K.
7:54 pm on Sunday, October 7, 2012
An aspect of vandalism is frequently present in authentic street art, and I read this particular instance as a quirky, largely innocent, witty creative act. Calm down people, it's not a crime wave; it's an inside joke for locals and 215ers. more ›