by Norm Oder 
In 2012, little more than three years after its April 2009 founding, the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, basking in rapid growth and a $10 million boost from venture capital investors, agreed to spend $7.5 million to buy and renovate part of the landmarked Eberhard Faber pencil factory complex in Greenpoint.
“We are hoping to stay at 58 Kent [Street] forever — to be our permanent headquarters,” Kickstarter CEO Perry Chen told Community Board 1, according to
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The graffiti really was merciless (and not artful). Spirit crushing.
Remember the creative gradient shuffling of graffitied bricks at BMW’s open co-working space, on Banker? Mistakenly the reorganized heavy gradient was at street level and then promptly coated in tags and lesser creations.