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burn baby burn! graff in Paterson & Hackensack

February 29th, 2020 by Mr. C

**One layer of a 3 layered graffiti wall of fame cake at School 15** –

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It’s been a minute since I’ve been to both of these locations in Hackensack & Paterson to soak in the latest burners from Jersey & NYC’s finest. Hell, as I look at our last updates from these graff meccas, I haven’t been to either since 2016. Whaaat!? As I do a little moonwalk and refreshing in my head, our last visit to School 15 in Paterson – the 3 tiered playground which is akin to a sacred temple – a place of worship for aerosol writers was in a state of disarray. Walls were buffed out, the good pieces that were on the wall were bombed over with nonsensical lettering. The school yard, all three levels were in sad state. I remembered it stayed like that for a long while – at least a year. School 15 has always encouraged local artists to use their concrete walls as a canvas to inspire its K-8 students. I peeked in on Paterson’s Graffiti Wall of Fame today and I’m happy to report that the walls are flaming with fire once again! Meanwhile in Hackensack later that day, the Union Street Park graffiti scene is alive & well! There’s no more Fat Albert lurking on the walls but fresh paint is a poppin in the playground! The Hackensack mural wall space at this park has been around since 2007, thanks to founder and curator, Darrius-Jabbar Sollas also known as Nasty Neo. I think Neo is still curating this space? Anybody in the know, shoot us some gamma rays of info if I’m wrong.

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