Jury backs graffiti artists who sued over destroyed work
NEW YORK — A federal jury has sided with a group of New York graffiti artists who sued over the destruction of their work.
A judge will now decide whether the artists must be compensated for the loss of their whitewashed murals.
The jury’s advisory ruling came Tuesday in the lawsuit over a site in Queens known as 5Pointz.
Owner Jerry Wolkoff allowed the spray-paint artists to use his buildings for decades but said they always knew the buildings would be torn down someday.