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Documentation of New York City subway graffiti history. Featuring graffiti artist biographies, interviews and artwork.
The lower level 2/5 train platforms at 149 Street-Grand Concourse that leads to the White Plains Road line have a very unique history. These platforms are quite deep underground because 2 trains enter 149 Street tunnel just west of the station to enter Manhattan. 5 trains to and from Manhattan immediately west of the station the 5 trains ...
14 gru 2012 · Mr. Chalfant didn’t meet any actual graffiti writers until 1979, when someone told him about the Writer’s Bench, inside the lower level of the 149th Street and Grand Concourse station. Though...
@149st derives its name from the last existing writer's bench during the New York City subway graffiti movement. 149th Street Grand Concourse, a subway station in the Bronx located on the 2 and 5 lines.
FAB 5 FREDDY: By the late 1970s, every square inch of practically every subway train in New York City, almost every station, was completely blitzed with graffiti—along with buses, trucks, walls. At this time, I was also following the developing punk and New Wave movements and the excitement around bands like the Clash and the Sex Pistols in ...
Initially, New York City graffiti was used primarily by political activists to make statements and by street gangs to mark territory. Though graffiti movements such as the Cholos of Los Angeles in the 1930s and the hobo signatures on freight trains predate the New York School, it wasn't till the late 1960s that graffiti’s current identity ...
21 sty 2022 · The term is borrowed from the New York subway generation and the legendary “Writers Bench,” a subway station on 149th Street where writers congregated to exchange stories and critique graffiti from several different lines as they rolled through the station.
