New York Subway Car Graffiti

Officials say each car at the jamaica train yard.

New york subway car graffiti. Graffiti writers had a powerful drive to display their names and identities to the world and a moving subway car was their preferred medium. A pair of infamous middle aged graffiti writers got caught red handed at an mta bronx rail yard sunday with one of them literally covered in paint. First mayor john lindsey formed the first. It looked like something out of the 1970s or 80s.

They hired david l. Stunning video shows a subway car completely covered in graffiti. Gunn as the president of the transit authority who had previously cleaned up trains in boston philadelphia dc and toronto but even he termed the nyc subway cleanup a suicide mission. The multi colored compositions across a cavalcade of cars at jamaica yard in queens.

Lots of people have a romantic view of the edgy new york of the 70s and 80s and understandably so. Provided by wins radio new york new york 1010 wins the mta says 11 subway cars were spray painted with graffiti in queens over the weekend. Graffiti is on the express track back into new york s subway landscape mta data obtained by the post shows. Finally the mta found a solution that worked.

For city officials train graffiti was a sign that they had lost control so starting in the early 70s mayors of new york vowed to eradicate graffiti. After holding at around 200 markings in stations and on trains per year in the first. New york cbsnewyork a subway car was covered with graffiti on halloween night.