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The Village Voice remembers the art and provocations of the underground comix genius, Vaughn Bode, on the 50th anniversary of his death.
We can call it work but this is fun. Creating and transforming the store gates that get pulled down. Uptown Grand Central is a project that follows in the legacy ...
TV shows. Gambling. Cosmetics. These are just a handful of businesses that advertise with the MTA throughout its massive ...
In 1985, police were acquitted in the killing of a graffiti artist and painter, a grisly act that galvanized the city’s art ...
There’s a unique beauty in abandoned spaces, where time seems frozen, and history feels palpable. These locations, deserted ...
When a train gets covered in graffiti, it has to be cleaned, taking it out of service and affecting commutes.
Volunteers clean subway train graffiti, 1983, (Credit: Robert Rosamilio/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) How long would trains stay painted like that before the Transit Authority painted ...
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa told Fox News Digital the smashing of windows on dozens of subway trains in one night is akin to 9/11 "warning signs." ...
At 10:20 PM on Sunday, September 2, 1990, 22-year-old Utah resident Brian Watkins, accompanied by his parents, brother, and sister-in-law, entered the New York City subway system in midtown Manhattan, ...
The MTA’s brand new subway cars got a fresh coat of paint this week — but it wasn’t one the transit agency paid for. Photos obtained by Gothamist show a new subway train made up of cars ...
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.
Tagging a train is often less about the art and more about the prize of marking something that entails risk and echoes the original graffiti writers, who blanketed subway trains, including the ...