The graffiti wall on the north leg of the Periwinkle Bikepath on Friday afternoon, Jan. 23, 2026.
A Facebook post by the Albany Parks Department sent me to the Periwinkle Bikepath Friday to see what volunteers had done to clean up recent work by taggers on what might be the city’s most notorious graffiti wall.
Here, take a look what I found:
On Facebook, the city’s parks department posted photos of volunteers with paint and brushes working to erase or cover up graffiti all over town.
“A huge shout out to the volunteers from Target and Just Serve that came out to our first Adopt-A-Park event of the year.” the department said. “Twenty-five volunteers showed up and spread out throughout Albany to paint over a ton of graffiti in parks and along trails. Thank you to all of our amazing volunteers!”
The wall between the bike path and Lowe’s Home Improvement Center might be called Albany Tag Central or Graffiti Ground Zero.
If you watched the video, you saw that the volunteers made good progress painting over, or scratching out, many of the markings on the wall.
But, sad to say, you can be sure the spray paint vandals will be back, even though one of the most recent taggers had written “I AM DONE.” (hh)
Before: On my last visit to Tag Central, I wondered whether the author of this phrase really meant it.
After: The cleanup volunteers managed to get the paint off, but the message remained.
Here’s one of the photos the Albany Parks Department posted of volunteers working during the “Adopt-a-Park” event.
Unless you are willing to give them jail time, it will never stop.
unless you the tax payer are willing to pay $150 a day to jail someone over some spray paint it wont stop.
also new “taggers” are born every day so they will never not be any taggers.
there i fixed it for you
Thanks to the many volunteers that spend time and energy working to make a difference in our community Also thanks to Hasso for his dedication to providing continuing insights to all of us. A special gift.
Yes, a thank-you to the volunteers and to Hasso for the blog video of the Periwinkle path.
Question: Hasso, don’t you think it is young people acting out for whatever reason who have the money to buy paint and brushes who do the tagging? I don’t think homeless people do it. Yes, homeless people do leave their trash around, though, but non-homeless people throw their trash on the ground, too.
Taggers don’t buy paint and brushes. Lol
well where do they get their paint if they dont buy it?
DUH! It’s called theft!
The city could plant ivy along the wall. It will look lovely … and nobody tags ivy.
Why not just designate that wall as a grafitti free area & not worry about it….???!
First of all thank u volunteers..
Second Allowing it to be a graffiti wall i dont think would be the problem as much to what is being painted on it.
Thirdly.. I wish there was more information about volunteering for things like this.. so many things folks could get involved with but most times I dont see anything about it until after the fact ❤️
Another solution would be to tear down the wall.
I’m sure Lowe’s has cameras for their back area.