‘No trespassing’ signs have gone up at Graffiti Pier after its collapse. Philly’s street artists say they’re undeterred.

“No trespassing” signs and a fence went up around what is affectionately known as Graffiti Pier over the weekend, effectively cordoning off the Instagram-famous art oasis following its partial collapse last week. The front tip of the Port Richmond pier — which juts out at Cumberland and Beach Streets and is covered in decades of overlapping graffiti — tumbled into the water Wednesday, according to the Coast Guard. The cause of the collapse is still unknown, but the city “is not recommending that the pier be demolished,” said a spokesperson for the Department of Licenses & Inspections. The pier’s regulars (a collection of street artists, ravers, fisherman, Instagrammers and people who like alone time) remain undeterred by the collapse and crackdown, making plans to return while mourning the loss of Graffiti Pier as it once was: intact, untouched, and a free-for-all. » READ MORE: Portion of Graffiti Pier collapses into the Delaware River “I can’t think of another space like it in Philadelphia,” said Tyson Mitman, a street art researcher and the author of The Art of Defiance: Graffiti, Politics, and the Reimagined City in Philadelphia. “It’s incredible, kind of like a living museum.” Before it was covered in tags...