New York Subway Car 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.
New york subway car graffiti. New york cbsnewyork a subway car was covered with graffiti on halloween night. Graffiti writers had a powerful drive to display their names and identities to the world and a moving subway car was their preferred medium. Lots of people have a romantic view of the edgy new york of the 70s and 80s and understandably so. 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. It looked like something out of the 1970s or 80s. Finally the mta found a solution that worked. First mayor john lindsey formed the first.
Progressive action shocking new photos show a succession of subway cars slathered top to bottom with graffiti. 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. They hired david l. Officials say each car at the jamaica train yard. 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. The multi colored compositions across a cavalcade of cars at jamaica yard in queens. Eight subway cars in brooklyn have been covered by graffiti in memory of two big apple street artists who died last week and it will cost thousands to clean up the spray painted tribute.
Stunning video shows a subway car completely covered in graffiti.