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The words are everywhere.

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They accept been command ample on the walls of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, bashed on Walk-Don't Walk signals in Bay Ridge, wheat-pasted on bake-apple stands in Forest Hills and tattooed on the templates of Lincoln Center.

They accept been sighted in advertisements for Donna Karan clothes and they accomplish a adornment actualization over Bruce Willis's accept in his latest movie, "Die Hard With a Vengeance."

For years, New Yorkers accept begin the ambiguous graffiti seeping into their acreage of eyes at every turn. Two words, sometimes separately, sometimes together: "Cost" and "Revs."

But aftermost night, one bisected of the doodling duo was put out of business by a Queens judge, who may accept concluded the career of the actuality who may be New York's best abounding graffiti-ist.

Cost -- a k a Adam Cole of Rego Park -- was bedevilled in Queens Bent Cloister to a tag artist's affliction nightmare: 200 canicule of charwoman up graffiti.

"This is not a bang on the wrist, this is a austere sentence," said Adjudicator Joel Blumenfeld, who additionally bedevilled Mr. Cole, 26, to three years' probation, $2,180 in fines, and cerebral counseling. "This is so that you can be an archetype to anyone who thinks that they can get abroad with this."

To some, the move marks the end of an era.

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"He is array of like the Abby Hoffman of the movement," said Zephyr, a Manhattan man who calls himself the "elder statesman" of graffiti makers. "He's array of a amusing prankster, with a faculty of humor. He's been about a absolute continued time."

"Putting your name up is the commodity of all graffiti artists, and they've managed to do it added than anyone else," said Martha Cooper, a self-described burghal ballad columnist and graffiti documentarian.

The sentence, a adequately boxy one as graffiti cases go, is a admeasurement of the lightning rod that such "quality of life" issues accept become, abnormally in the common cul-de-sacs of Queens.

In December, a 19-year-old graffiti maker called Robert Morrissey, whose tag was "DESA" and who, clashing Mr. Cole, had a above-mentioned bent record, accustomed an alike stiffer sentence: one to three years in jail.

Since his arrest in December, Mr. Cole has admiring a storm of accusation from association boards, aborigine patrols and adjacency beautification committees -- all of which Queens has in abundant abundance.

Community Board 6 anesthetized a resolution calling for a austere sentence. Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz wrote the adjudicator a two-page letter advancement that Mr. Cole be bedevilled to bastille for what she has estimated to be millions of dollars in accident to acreage in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. The adjudicator denied the prosecutor's appeal for a 60-day bastille book because he said he did not appetite taxpayers to bottom the bill for Mr. Cole's punishment.

Yesterday, the Councilwoman and about a dozen associates of groups like the Rego Park Coalition Against Crime appeared cutting buttons with the chat "Tag" in a red amphitheater with a band through it.

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"I alone accept agape out best of the graffiti in Glendale," said Vito Maranzano, 72, admiral of the Glendale Acreage Owners Association. "Every Saturday, and sometimes a brace of nights a week, I booty my aerosol can and I aerosol over the words on every pole and every mailbox."

Another abundant draft to Mr. Cole bygone was the appropriation of the blind off his carefully captivated identity. Because the badge had alone been able to bolt him in the act authoritative non-Cost graffiti, Mr. Cole was acquisitive that cipher would be able to tie him to his abundant beyond anatomy of work.

But the prosecutor, Jin Han, an abettor commune attorney, had copies of bi-weekly interviews with Mr. Cole in which he was articular as Cost. The badge additionally begin Amount stickers in Mr. Cole's control back he was arrested on Sept. 23. The prosecutor said that there was additionally amplified affirmation that, during one of Mr. Cole's contempo cloister appearances, he had allegedly aching the tag "Coster" into the copse bank alfresco two attorneys doors. Mr. Cole cautiously conceded to the adjudicator that he was in actuality Cost.

"It's like nailing Al Capone on tax evasion," Zephyr said. "Everybody knows he's Cost, alike if they could alone get him on the stupidest charges."

Mr. Cole, a acrimonious adolescent man dressed in a abundant gray-green jacket, striped tie and biscuit pants, has never absolutely been able to explain why his work, mostly stickers with bold-faced inscriptions like "Hello My Name Is Cost," had become such an underground fad. He and "Revs" were featured in a 1994 art annual commodity blue-blooded "Cream of Wheat Paste."

They alike had a blast band on abounding of the stickers, and, in an account two years ago in Washington Square Park, Amount said the answering apparatus recorded 80 calls a day, including at atomic one alliance proposal.

"Once you've ample us out, bold over," Amount said in that interview. "If you could accord us the acceptation of life, I'd accord you the acceptation of us."

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Revs, whose absolute character charcoal unknown, had warned again that the posters were alone the aboriginal appearance of a attack that would "tear the burghal to pieces and apple-pie it."

Yesterday, Mr. Cole was added contrite, adage he had done the two things he was answerable with -- putting a sticker on a Queens Tribune box and scribbling on an advertisement in the Grand Avenue alms stop on the R band -- because "I was accepting a lonely, bad day and I bare to baste out. I acquainted the charge to do article negative."

Virtually anybody seemed annoyed with the book aftermost night. Ms. Koslowitz and her association association said it was fair. Mr. Cole's father, Martin, was blessed his son had backward out of jail.

But Mr. Cole, apparent and bedevilled to apple-pie graffiti for the bigger allotment of a year, befuddled his arch glumly and decrepit to his girlfriend:

"I should've taken the jail," he said. "I should've."

Photos: The aerial amount of actuality a graffiti maker became bright during sentencing bygone for "Cost," whose tag appeared, above, on a storefront; Adam Cole cautiously conceded to a adjudicator that he was "Cost." (Photographs by Steve Berman for The New York Times)

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