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Documentation of New York City subway graffiti history. Featuring graffiti artist biographies, interviews and artwork.
@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.
Initially, New York City graffiti was used primarily by political activists to make statements and by street gangs to mark territory. 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 ...
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.
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.
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...
There was one particular bench at the back of the 149th Street station in the Bronx where the young writers would meet to watch the 2 and 5 lines pass, exhibiting their handwork.
