1.   Customers disappeared from shops and restaurants, while block-long stretches fell into urban decay, with boarded-up buildings marred by graffiti.

2.   Customers disappeared from shops and restaurants, while blocklong stretches fell into urban decay, with boarded-up buildings marred by graffiti.

3.   Graffiti mars the walls of both rooms.

4.   Roscoe Elementary is surrounded by overcrowded, dilapidated apartment buildings marred by graffiti.

5.   Several of the paintings have been marred by graffiti, which are themselves part of the historical record.

6.   Graffiti mars the shabby walls.