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The last car of a Q train heading deeper into Brooklyn, April 2014. The MTA replaced the unwanted graffiti with irregular streaks of polishing that form a graffiti-like appearance of their own ...

Two subway trains were bombed by graffiti -- completely covered in paint -- over the weekend, according to transit employees who found the cars in the MTA's Jamaica Yard on Monday morning. "The ...

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.

In April, the NYPD arrested three Spanish nationals for allegedly vandalizing subway train cars with "European style graffiti" in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. The three taggers have ...

Graffiti vandals have been on a rampage — painting murals and boastful tags on the outside of two dozen subway cars since New Year’s Day. The spray-paint menaces carried out at least ni… ...

Arts & Culture See an Incredible Exhibit of Graffiti-Tagged NYC Subway Trains from the ’70s and ’80s Michelle Young September 30 2019 3 min read ...

"NYC Transit personnel discovered this vandalism – which put an entire train out of service and will cost thousands of dollars to restore – on the morning of Dec. 15 and are fully cooperating ...

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 ...

“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.

Ogburn says his "Swinging Letter Blade" is the most recognized subway train that was ever painted. By 1989, though, the graffiti works on New York subway trains were gone.

It's like a glimpse of what was once a dazzling subway in Manhattan, but you can't just see this secret abandoned subway station from anywhere. You must take only the 4, 5, and 6 trains for a ...