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@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.
- New York City Graffiti History
Documentation of New York City subway graffiti history....
- New York City Graffiti History
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.
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.
The 149th Street–Grand Concourse station is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Jerome Avenue Line and the IRT White Plains Road Line. It is located at East 149th Street and Grand Concourse in Mott Haven, Melrose and Concourse in the Bronx.
Bronx-Lexington Av-Eastern Pkwy Express 149 St-Grand Concourse. The lower level 2/5 train platforms at 149 Street-Grand Concourse that leads to the White Plains Road line have a very unique history.
9 gru 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 in the...
