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… ...

See an Incredible Exhibit of Graffiti-Tagged NYC Subway Trains from the ’70s and ’80s. Michelle Young Sep 30, 2019. September 30 2019 3 min read Share. Tweet Share Share Email Copy.

Vandals covered an entire subway train with graffiti in Brooklyn. (Credit: Instagram user Sosabk718) ... NYC transit, water systems are top concerns in U.S. infrastructure report.

Systemically, train line by train line, Gunn took the subways off the map for graffiti writers. If graffiti artists “bombed” a train car, the MTA pulled it from the system. Even during rush hour.

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 ...

There have been 285 “major graffiti hits” on trains through Sunday, Tarek said. In 2018, there were 443 such incidents, he said. NYC Transit has spent $533,375 to clean up graffiti this year ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on average spends about $1 million a year to remove graffiti from its stainless steel subway trains, spokesman Kevin Ortiz said. An MTA rail yard at 207th St.

Subway graffiti expert (and Gothamist co-founder) Jake Dobkin has previously noted, "Europeans do love to come to NYC and try to get up on a train. Most New York writers don't, because they know ...

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. Credit ...

It's been quite awhile since we've seen some serious subway tagging, but it seems we've found our first colorful casualty of 2013. This photo, taken by Jocelyn Goldstein, was snapped at the W 4th ...

A pair of transit workers wound up in the hospital last Friday after inhaling fumes from subway trains vandalized by graffiti artists, according to an internal report obtained by The Post.