{"id":4422,"date":"2009-02-03T10:43:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2009-02-03T10:43:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T15:43:13","slug":"street_art_is_not_a_crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/street_art_is_not_a_crime.html","title":{"rendered":"Street Art Is Not A Crime!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh wait, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/02032009\/news\/regionalnews\/hes_a_boaster_boy_153314.htm\">yes it is<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A guerrilla &#8220;artist&#8221; known as &#8220;Poster Boy,&#8221; who cuts up and rearranges subway advertisements into designs of his own, was busted after an undercover officer overheard him bragging to a girl about his exploits at a party, sources said. <\/p>\n<p>Henry Matyjewicz, 27, of Bushwick, Brooklyn, was arrested Friday at an art show at a SoHo loft that featured his work and was hosted by a group called Sly Art vs. Robot City. <\/p>\n<p>Transit police had gotten a tip that Matyjewicz would be at the party, advertised as &#8220;The Friends We Love Festival,&#8221; and sent the undercover officer, the sources said. <\/p>\n<p>Poster Boy&#8217;s work has caused tens of thousands of dollars in damage to ad campaigns, and he has long been a thorn in New York City Transit&#8217;s side. <\/p>\n<p>But not knowing what he looked like, the officer was able to nab him only after he overheard the artist\/vandal bragging to the girl, the sources said. <\/p>\n<p>He was charged with counts of criminal mischief, graffiti and possessing a tool to make graffiti. He was also held on a warrant for shoplifting in Manhattan last August, court records show.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh wait, yes it is: A guerrilla &#8220;artist&#8221; known as &#8220;Poster Boy,&#8221; who cuts up and rearranges subway advertisements into designs of his own, was busted after an undercover officer overheard him bragging to a girl about his exploits at a party, sources said. Henry Matyjewicz, 27, of Bushwick, Brooklyn, was arrested Friday at an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4423,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions\/4423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}