He said he considered the graffiti to be art, but he worried the younger kids he’d seen accessing the site would get hurt. “Part of me likes this,” he said, “and the other part of me doesn ...

And if you ask East New York-born and raised graffiti artist Doc TC5, he can relate. His mother wasn't much of a fan either. "It was like an embarrassment to her that I was a vandal," TC5 says.