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… ...

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… ...

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 ...

NYC subway cars covered with graffiti memorials will cost thousands to clean: MTA By . David Meyer, Tina Moore and Yaron Steinbuch. Published Dec. 18, 2019. Updated Dec. 19, 2019, 4:08 a.m. ET.

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.

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.

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.

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 was like illegible technicolor ...

THE XNY GUIDE TO CLASSIC NEW YORK CITY CULTURE Presents: The Best Of New York Subway Graffiti. Back in August, the 4 train pulled into the Woodlawn stop in the Bronx covered in wide swaths of neon ...

The number of subway graffiti artworks in New York City is climbing steadily after taking a significant dip in the last few years, according to reports by the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA).

Graffiti covering nearly a dozen subway cars is raising questions about the security of the MTA's subway system. 24/7 Live New York City New Jersey Long Island Northern Suburbs Connecticut.