Reborn WTC turns into artists' canvas

NEW YORK - On one of the highest floors of a Lower Manhattan office tower, New York street artists have spent the past year spray-painting and splashing their graffiti, murals and other wild creations across pristine walls, windows, floors and ceilings.

But no, it isn't vandalism.

Developer Larry Silverstein allowed the 50 artists to turn 3,200 square meters of office space that normally would rent for about a quarter of a million dollars a month into their own sprawling canvas. Multicolored graffiti and other works by sculptors and painters explode with images of fantasy and reality, tragedy and comedy.