1970 S New York Subway Graffiti

By 1970 residents of the five boroughs could view the handiwork of their own local graffiti writers who painted their crudely written pseudonyms on the sides and interiors of subway cars.

1970 s new york subway graffiti. In 2014 new york city s subway cars look mostly homogenous with exteriors of blank steel and interiors decorated with the smiling faces of venmo lucas and dr. 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 1976 1984 1990 graffiti and all complete version part silent movie duration. 1 train marked with extensive graffiti in may 1973.

Graffiti in new york city has had a substantial role in the rise of property crimes at the local national and international scale. The bmt jamaica line late 1970s courtesy nyt podcast 111 art. New york city s subway in the late 1970s and 1980s looked like it came straight out of the walter hill cult classic warriors. Bbus129 by dondi on a new york city subway car 1984.

Graffiti was one of those crimes that added to the sense of disorder and anarchy that both encouraged other crimes and made new york kind of a scary place to be. Graffiti laced train carts poverty stricken beggars and drug addicts side by side with colorfully dressed gang members harassing the passengers who gladly give up valuable possessions in exchange for their lives were a normal sight back then. A man stands on a. Heavily tagged new york city subway car in 1973.

Crime in general was rising in the 1970 s and it was exploding in the subway. Such efforts posed a major threat to the 1970 s graffiti writers as subway cars had become essential tools for ferrying new work across the city and building reputations with writer c a t. On the wild times of the subway graffiti era 1970 1989. By 1973 the spray painted signatures had evolved into complex colorful scripts.

But in the late 1970s when. A man stands at the 125th street elevated train subway platform in may 1973. A man rides the subway in may 1973.