Letter: The Return of Graffiti

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"The Writing Is on the Walls, and the Signs and the Trees," by Michael Wilson (Crime Scene column, Aug. 10), tells of a new graffiti problem in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where graffiti appear on almost every surface. While so many young people today indulge in their own graffiti, called tattoos, the landscape has certainly changed from the 1970s heyday of the artist Keith Haring, who made it into an art form.

Furthermore, public agencies like Con Edison and the Department of Water Supply have embarked on their own ill-advised "graffiti" program, marking the pavement as they plan their utility maintenance.

It appears that we are once again being bombarded by this disease, except not in the subways, where the Metropolitan Transportation Authority learned its lesson from the graffiti mania 35 years ago, when riding the subway was so unpleasant.

If people choose to tattoo themselves, that is their affair, but the public space is a different matter and requires constant policing, as the M.T.A. now does.

PETER SAMTON
New York, Aug. 12, 2013

The writer is the architect.

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