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Without having been commissioned—or even given legal permission at all—Haring set out to create Crack Is Wack on the wall of an abandoned handball court in a park at 2nd Avenue and East 128th Street on June 27, 1986. Upon the completion of the mural, Haring was arrested by the New York City Police Department for vandalism of city property and faced potential jail time in addition to heavy fines. However, media sources like The Washington Post and The New York Post, and even city locals themselves verbalized their support of Haring's mural in the wake of the crack epidemic. Haring pled guilty to a reduced charge, of disorderly conduct, was ordered to pay a $100 fine. Soon after, the mural was vandalized and transformed into a pro-crack mural that read ''Crack Is It." Therefore, it was painted over in gray by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. The Parks Department commissioner Henry J. Stern invited Haring to paint a new mural, offering him eight sites, the paint, and the use of a van. Haring decided to repaint the original site on October 3, 1986. The new version relays the same style and anti-drug message but exhibits a new arrangement of different figures on both sides of the handball court.