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When I noticed the "Stay High 149" piece on the train, my jaw dropped and I knew I had to post this up. Way ahead of his time and more elabo...
@149st Video: John Crash Matos. 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.
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.
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 Street-Grand Concourse station...
15 maj 2020 · It’s 1982 and the 149th Street-Grand Concourse station in the Bronx is teeming with teenagers scribbling in notebooks. They call themselves writers but they are really artists working across...
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...
