New York Subway Graffiti 1980s

Originating in the new york city subway and spreading beyond it graffiti is among the most common forms of vandalism committed today.

New york subway graffiti 1980s. By the end of the decade it had cleaner trains no. Or commercial murals in the mid. Besidecolors graffiti nyc cartoon. Graffiti in new york city has had a substantial role in the rise of property crimes at the local national and international scale.

The 1980s could be summarized as the jekyll and hyde period of the new york subway system. Graffiti writers had a powerful drive to display their names and identities to the world and a moving subway car was their preferred medium. Throughout america and the world it had a reputation for. Relive the glory days of 80s subway graffiti with these captivating photos in 1984 martha cooper and henry chalfant released their book subway art.

It documented new york s early 1980s graffiti scene and its impact was huge but. A classic image of the 1980s in new york was subway carriages covered in graffiti but seigel contrasts that here with the past in the form of the statue of liberty right and the world trade. Christopher morris on the new york subway 1981 jan 22 2014 new york was a very different place in the 1980s. Bbus129 by dondi on a new york city subway car 1984.

In may 1989 after a 15 year long campaign of slowly eradicating new york city s subway graffiti train by train the metropolitan transportation authority officially declared the city s subways. Grit grime and graffiti. Next the city erected a double wall of fences topped with barbed wire around the resting trains and set german shepherds as guards but those measures didn t work either.