30+ New York Subway Graffiti 1980s

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New york subway graffiti 1980s. Christopher morris on the new york subway 1981 jan 22 2014 new york was a very different place in the 1980s. Graffiti in new york city has had a substantial role in the rise of property crimes at the local national and international scale. Throughout america and the world it had a reputation for. Grit grime and graffiti. Or commercial murals in the mid. Graffiti writers had a powerful drive to display their names and identities to the world and a moving subway car was their preferred medium. From the south bronx to east new york a new generation of graffiti writers has emerged many of whom have never hit a trainyard or the inside of a subway car.

The 1980s could be summarized as the jekyll and hyde period of the new york subway system. 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. Heavily tagged new york city subway car in 1973. 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. As the decade began it had the filthiest trains the craziest graffiti the noisiest wheels and the weirdest passengers. 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. Originating in the new york city subway and spreading beyond it graffiti is among the most common forms of vandalism committed today.

Relive the glory days of 80s subway graffiti with these captivating photos in 1984 martha cooper and henry chalfant released their book subway art.