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NY graffiti artists seek damages for destroyed works

NEW YORK - For more than a decade, they came from across New York City and around the world to leave their mark at the place they called 5Pointz.

Armed with cans of spray paint, they left bubble-lettered tags, outlined buxom cartoon women and made elaborate murals of a green Mother Earth and of a white-haired Dos Equis man on the walls of several interconnected warehouses in Queens.

To the creators - and the man who allowed them to paint - this wasn't some random graffiti hurriedly slapped on a subway car. They viewed themselves as artists, and in time 5Pointz became a tourist destination.

Some of the works lasted just a day, others a year or more - part of a dynamic installation that occupied the better

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