(JTA) — Commuters on a New York City subway used hand sanitizer to clean away swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti drawn in permanent marker on the train’s maps, advertisements and windows.

The average New York City subway car travels roughly 53,000 miles per year across some of the oldest transit infrastructure in the world. Rumbling through a web of grungy tunnels and weather ...

His job, he said, was to carry the backpack full of spray paint for graffiti ... of the R46 train car, you have to understand a bit of subway history. The New York subway system stands out ...