By David Pescovitz/Boing Boing
Graffiti artists bombed at least two dozen New York City train cars last weekend, resulting in a traveling gallery of magnificent pieces reminiscent of subway art’s 1970s heyday.
From The City:
The bulk of the hits occurred during the nightly 1 a.m.-to-5 a.m. suspension of subway passenger service, a source with knowledge of the incidents said. Most took place in tunnels and along stretches of out-of-service tracks used to store trains – areas that are supposed to be patrolled by the NYPD.
Of the 183 subway-car graffiti hits this year, 153 of them – or 83% – have occurred in the so-called layup areas, according to an MTA spokesperson, while the remainder have come in subway yards secured by transit officials […]
The run of graffiti and vandalism incidents come in the wake of officials at the transit agency pinning a rise in subway crime on the NYPD and what MTA Chairperson Patrick Foye has called an “inexplicable and unacceptable” decrease in the number of arrests and summonses.
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I pored over “Subway Art” back in the day, mesmerized. https://t.co/lNonKxS4Ma
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) May 30, 2019
Posted on December 4, 2020