Or keep reading to learn more. 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 train.

Lauded photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant made a name for themselves documenting New York City’s graffiti culture in the 1970s and 1980s. Their 1984 book “Subway Art” has been ...

“For the newer generation who are interested in the subway, it’s still a draw,” said Eric Felisbret, a graffiti historian who painted trains as ‘DEAL CIA’ in the late 1970s and early 80s.

The new exhibition Henry Chalfant: Art vs. Transit, 1977-1987 at the Bronx Museum shows the striking photography of Henry Chalfant, who documented the street art and urban culture in New York City ...

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 ...

A graffiti-covered NYC Subway train, its doors open at South Ferry Subway station in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City, 1983.

When Henry Chalfant sees ads on the sides of today’s subway trains, he often mistakes them for the graffiti he used to photograph in the 1970s and ‘80s. “I think, ‘Oh my God, window down ...

Shocking new photos show a succession of subway cars slathered top to bottom with graffiti. The multi-colored compositions across a cavalcade of cars at Jamaica Yard in Queens — posted on ...

Subway photographer Henry Chalfant’s photos of ’70s and ’80s NYC documented in new exhibit The exhibit showcases the rise of graffiti art in the Bronx By Valeria Ricciulli Sep 30, 2019, 3 ...

The markers and paints used to graffiti the NYC subway are broken down for SPIN by Adam McLeer, train writer turned rapper with the Lordz of Brooklyn.

News An NYC transit-inspired cannabis dispensary opens in LIC with a life-sized subway car NYC Bud is designed like an MTA subway station with vintage subway benches, subway signs, graffiti and more.

A graffiti-covered NYC Subway train, its doors open at South Ferry Subway station in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City, 1983.