As Brooklyn changes more and more, WC contributor Caroline Bach, took some time out to chat with 5 Pointz founder, Jonathan Cohen, more commonly known by his tag, Meres One, about the news that the graffiti mecca at Jackson and Crane in Long Island City, is being transformed into a luxury living/shopping megaplex, inevitably sending smaller mom and pops shops into early retirement, all while pricing out any remaining artists that helped make the community desirable to live in, in the first place.
Is this the New York of 2012?
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