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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...
22 godz. temu · A collection of 31 subway drawings by graffiti artist Keith Haring are expected to sell for more than $6 million. ... (Haring’s auction record currently stands at $6.5 million, according to the ...
Documentation of New York City subway graffiti history. Featuring graffiti artist biographies, interviews and artwork.
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.
@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.
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 started to form.
This passageway has mosaics that say “N.Y. Central Lines” and was completed in 1920 as part of a platform extension project and designed to connect with a never-built 149 Street Super Station that the New York Central Railroad (that crosses over the subway platforms in this area) planned to build.
