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Documentation of New York City subway graffiti history. Featuring graffiti artist biographies, interviews and artwork.
6 maj 2022 · The Cost of Paint. The MTA said it expects to spend more than $1 million in 2022 on graffiti-related costs, as it has the previous two years.
@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.
By Jennifer Bleyer. Dec. 9, 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...
8,543 Followers, 5,234 Following, 3,919 Posts - @149st NYC Graffiti (@149st_graffiti) on Instagram: "Eric Deal: Author of Graffiti New York (Abrams) Documenting New York City graffiti since 1977".
Since paintings rarely if ever run on trains today, this bench is no longer frequented by writers. Old school New York writers occasionally visit the site for the sake of nostalgia. Writers post 1989 and writers from outside New York City occasionally visit it as a historical location.
22 cze 2006 · Graffiti today is such an accepted part of youth culture that it’s hard to imagine what New Yorkers experienced in the early seventies, as they watched their city become steadily tattooed...
