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.

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… ...

But after that number fell again to 208 in 2020, according to the MTA, subway graffiti shot up in 2021 and is on pace to blow past the 300 total reports from last year — with 89% occurring in ...

Graffiti is on the express track back into New York’s subway landscape, MTA data obtained by The Post shows. After holding at around 200 markings in stations and on trains per year in the fir… ...

Graffiti layered on top of NYC DOT sanctioned murals, inside the 191st Street tunnel which connects Broadway to the 191st Street subway station in Washington Heights on Jan. 17, 2023.

A New York City subway car in 1976. Graffiti on the trains was a divisive issue at the time, but the artform long ago moved above ground, into studios and galleries.

Deep beneath the streets, in NYC’s extensive network of subway tunnels, graffiti artists have been secretly honing their craft for nearly four decades. With cans of spray paint and a willingness ...

In just about every movie set in New York City in the 1970s and 80s there's an establishing shot with a graffiti-covered subway. Saturday Night Fever That ...

Graffiti has made a resurgence on the city’s subways in recent years. The earlier half of the decade saw just around 200 incidents, while there were 619 in 2018, The Post reported in December .

They’re part of a long delayed effort to replace the subway’s R46 trains, which were first put into service during the graffiti-filled era of the 1970s and 1980s.

The New York City subway system is celebrating 120 years, ... There's a culture underground, and it means something to the millions of riders who rely on the subway. The art of subway graffiti.