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Bushwick Graffiti Tours Educate As Well As Piss Off

This is the Bushwick graffiti tour controversy from all sides.

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Bushwick Graffiti Tours Educate As Well As Piss Off

This is the Bushwick graffiti tour controversy from all sides.

Bushwick Graffiti Tours Educate As Well As Piss Off
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Forget the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty, kids. We’re going out on a graffiti tour in Bushwick.

Tourists from across the globe flock to Bushwick every year to admire art sprayed upon the walls of its alleys and abandoned factories. But critics claim that the graffiti tours are exploiting the neighborhood’s income inequality and local culture, leading some to even label the excursions as “ghetto tours.”

Over the last decade, artistic types have swarmed into Bushwick for its relatively affordable rent, bringing along different visions for this Brooklyn neighborhood where 30 percent of its residents fall below the federal poverty level and 42 percent haven’t completed high school.

Gabriel Schoenberg owns Graff Tours — the oldest of such tour companies in Brooklyn, he says — and for the last six years, he’s been…

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