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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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
@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.
