General Interest > ::Guten Tag::
You won’t see them gawking on the sidewalks near Rockefeller Center, lining up outside Planet Hollywood, or taking carriage rides through Central Park. In fact, you won’t see these tourists at all — unless you frequent South Bronx subway yards or the dozens of other train-storage areas around the city where groups of spray-can-wielding foreigners (most of them, inexplicably, Germans) routinely come to make their mark. “New York is the Mecca of graffiti,” says Maurice Balt, 29, who made the pilgrimage from his hometown, Cologne, in 1995. “It is seen as a tribute to graffiti itself to write on a train in New York.”
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