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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...
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.
15 maj 2020 · For the young people tagging, graffiti remade New York in their image. For those chasing them, that image was a blight on a city trying to rebuild itself into a shining metropolis. The...
In the following conversation, these four discuss the history and development of graffiti in New York. — CARLO McCORMICK. Lee Quiñones painting a mural for Charlie Ahearn’s film Wild Style, East River Park Amphitheater, Lower East Side, New York, 1981. Photo: Martha Cooper.
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...
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.
