ERIC aka DEAL Aliases: DEAL, ERIC 700 Started:1975 Primary affiliations: CIA Local origin: NYC Lines hit: Js, LLs, Ms, Fs, 5s,2s DEAL of Manhattan, started around 1976 doing station tags. Then in late 1977 started doing motion tags on the INDs with BLONDIE 1. Later he would hit lay-ups like The Bowery with LEC 1 where they met UN ONE, NA, NIF 1 and NO 2 of the Crazy Writers crew. DEAL wrote CW for a short period, then later in 1978 he met DONDI CIA at the Double L Yard. They became friends. DEAL took full advantage of the mentoring system DONDI set for the CIA crew. DEAL sketched outlines and DONDI refined them and gave him new ones. DEAL also functioned as the unofficial CIA crew photographer. He photographed countless CIA paintings fresh on the tracks. He painted with CIA, and later in mid 1980 quit writing. Though 1980 marked an end to his painting career, DEAL maintained a life long admiration of the art form developed on New York's subways. In 1998 DEAL collaborated with SPAR ONE TNS to found @149st New York City Cyber Bench (www.at149st.com). Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Copyright © 1998, 2003 @149st. All rights reserved. | Home |  Artists |  Crews |  History |  Links |  Glossary |