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A new generation of graffiti crews are blanketing New York subway trains in spray paint — a trend that some transit workers say resembles the bad old days of the 1970s and 1980s. Metropolitan… ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A surge in gun violence isn't the only sign New York is returning to the bad old days. Graffiti is popping up all over the city, and Mayor Bill de Blasio has decided not to ...
Graffiti-Free NYC, a partnership between the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit, the Economic Development Corp. and the Department of Sanitation, said that between 2008 and November 2011, more than ...
Graffiti was an infamous symbol of the decline and decay of New York City in the 1970s and '80s, and some now say it appears to be making a comeback.
The Museum of the City of New York is extending its exhibit on graffiti. Too bad. Better if it had closed as originally scheduled — or never even opened. Why do we say that? Because amid grow… ...
NEW YORK - Graffiti, once an underground movement in the '70s and '80s, has now moved above ground. In fact, "Above Ground" is the name of the new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York ...
The Seventies called. They want their walls back. While most New Yorkers grudgingly accepted New York City’s lockdown in March, one community eagerly embraced it: graffiti writers.
Still, subway graffiti persisted. For two decades, the MTA failed miserably—sometimes laughably—in its attempts to fix the problem. Like the time it decided to repaint 7,000 subway cars white.