Brooklyn is a marked borough. Graffiti crime complaints to police shot up by more than 96% last year, more than in any other borough. And arrests in Brooklyn for the unsightly drawings and gang ...

Last weekend, when some out-of-town taggers swooped into New Bedford to emblazon their messages on some of the downtown's more prominent buildings, including the U.S. Custom House, the Zeiterion and ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — On June 10, Tyson Middle was finishing the black outline on his tag, “SIRUS,” when a Billings police officer arrived at the scene. Middle lowered his black paint spray can and ...

Some acquaintances from Ireland were in town, and we were having lunch in their 20th-floor downtown hotel suite. I was being an armchair tour guide — out the windows, there’s L.A. Live, and back ...