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Benching: The Art of Watching Trains is a documentary by M. Nielsen that explores this tradition. The subways in New York were declared graffiti free in 1989 but the story does not end there. The film picks up in the early 1990's when a new generation started benching graffiti on freight trains.
Documentation of New York City subway graffiti history. Featuring graffiti artist biographies, interviews and artwork.
The bench at 149th St. and Grand Concourse is one spot where graffiti writers would gather and watch trains in the 70's and 80's when graffiti ran on the subway trains in New York.
Graffiti Videos and Films @149st. RECOMMENDED FILM AND VIDEO. @149st has complied a list of films and videos primarily from the New York City movement. Bomb It. Global graffiti documentary directed by Jon Reiss. Featuring street artists and top graffiti writers from five continents Including New York's TKID 170, COPE STAY HIGH149, TAKI 183.
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 ...
In March of 2009 we chose to honor the 149th St. & Grand Concourse bench where graffiti writers began to congregate in the mid 70's. Although there were similar Writers Benches throughout the city, this particular bench was the most popular and seemed to embody the vibrant and tenacious graffiti movement.
9 gru 2007 · BEGINNING in the 1970s, city kids swept up in the new trend of scribbling graffiti on the outside of subway cars gathered on a bench in the 149th Street-Grand Concourse station in the Bronx...
