Detroit Girls About Town, a web site that's aimed at keeping Detroit girls in the know, had a great idea: a guide to graffiti. So, the enlisted artist Shades to list some of the best spots in the city to peep some damn good graffiti. The list, taking you from the Dequindre Cut to MCS, could make a nice little afternoon tour on a lazy sunday.
Excerpt from Detroit Girls About Town:
1) Dequindre Cut.
The best place in the city to see graffiti and get into the feeling of what we [graffiti artists] experience would be the
Dequindre Cut.
It's an old, shut down train line that ran south to the warehouses on
the river and north towards the major lines that would lead the trains
out for industry. The two-mile area is now, for your pleasure, a
bike/jogging trail from the river to eastern market.
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