NYC Subway graffiti Reportage

[AKBNY]

who knew????? QUICK WAS SUCH A HATER!!!!!!!

[noreaga12326]

those were the days. who ever decided to remove these beautiful old trains is a moron. now a days, these young college yuppies messed up the city by making it look like the land of make believe. And the trains today are pieces of shit looking monerails u see at DisneyWorld.

[odemata87]

quick is such a sell out 

[themadscientest]

everyone who writes should decend on nyc for a day and just get markers and hit the insides and paint and cover the outsides and then nyc will be nyc again

[funkyladybean]

Why does it have to be gone??? Nothing said NYC like all the beautiful colour and character. Now there is nothing memorable about the city cept all the memories of what it used to be.

[Jadell]

Devious Doze Rocksteady Crew at the end there!!! Big up!!

[MrUncomfortableTruth]

0:14 cousin frank.

[graffiti1man]

in sydney you never see burners just mainly tags and like now cityrail is adding cctv to the trains inside of the trains this is the bad side of technoligy oh well still can get up though

[thePRkid08]

As a daily NYC Subway rider, I am a little glad the graffiti is technically gone, but I still love the graffiti art that was once on the trains. Even though I was born in the 90s, I believe that we still would have had graffiti on the trains if it was art and not random garbage that gave graffiti a bad name. Many artist made really creative work and it is sad that we don't see this kind of work anymore anywhere in NYC, but due to nonsense tags, it cost us the art that made the subway's unique.

[matZero]

so you bend to the competitive spirit of capitalizm when you talk about random trash. enjoy advertisings ;)

[inicksnttgiapresi]

so popo IGNORANTI!!!!!

[pannoni1]

Graffiti is still around in subways in parts of Europe!

[clubpenguin777]

and Australia.

[sipho9361]

GRAFFITI ROCKS!!!!

[graffitibroz]

I wish the trains stayed like dat just imagen it!

omfg!! it will be fun!!

[Windowsxpfan2103]

That t.v show was made fall of 1989 after graffiti on the NYC subway system ended in the summer of 1989. In the fall of 1989 all these subway were being rebuilt and other being retired. Thank god there is no more graffiti on NYC subway since summer of 1989.

[policia50]

we get it, you're happy since the graff was removed in 1989. 1989 is special to you. there is no better year than when they got rid of the graff in 1989.

in all seriousness though, whether you like it or not, that was a BIG part in the history of graffiti. and while you think that it was a negative part of history, to a lot of graffiti artists, as well as others who followed the artform, those were very important years in the evolution of the art.

[zoooyorker]

Not true. The mta sort of won the battle in '89 but it took some years before ALL graffiti disappeared from trains.

Ghost, JA, Ket, Ven and others wrote on trains through the early 90s. 'Clean train era' and it looked good too.

We never know really, another train graffiti era can spark up again with the mta's fiscal crisis and all. Writers these days are hungry, I don't see graf slowing down on the streets or tunnel walls. We'll see...

[AllStar9512]

im not a artist im a writer!

[MomoTheMC]

man shut the fuck up, Graffiti is cool. its the way people express themselves in nyc.

[Windowsxpfan2103]

you SHUT THE FUCK UP,graffiti is the one caused the subway carts to be in poor condition and looked horrible,and caused the subway system to be dangerous.

[zoooyorker]

Nonsense. The average MTA car is meant to last about 30 years (ideally). So let's see, what kind of cars did they write on:

R16s? from the late 1950s? Which lasted 30 years before being retired?

How about the R40s and R42s, which are ONLY now being retired after over 40 years or service.

Be a little more open. Graffiti decorated the subway. I hate seeing these bland silver cars.

[babz1991]

mad they removed all the trains with graffiti..i mean come on, its part of new york! lol

[MistrEgg]

sellouts

[mattiscirom]

fuck i would of killed to live a day in them days

that right there is heaven

[therealG33]

@mattiscirom same man glory days,my dream in life is to paint a nyc train even if it dont last

[InfamousStax]

Yep they managed to get it off the subway for the most part.... Now graff is on everyone elses shit. LoL

[az5625]

thats not true... graff is still on the subways... and also like maybe... trains in general... um. duh.

[deadhead905]

graff is barely on the subways these days. there are no pieces anymore.

[az5625]

thats a fuckin shame man. i sure wish it was still around. :/

[iLLzJaMILzz]

i thought MARE was italian

[yankee213456]

damn i cant remember whoss song is this again..?

[DRiP44445]

theyve won the war on the subways but we won the war on the streets and above ground trains

[skipstops]

The New York City Subway Garffiti Strated in the late 1960's. The New York City Subway Cars had Graffiti in the 1970's and the 1980's. People that did Graffiti on the subway cars were arrested before. The NYC MTA did repainted sometimes to get the subway cars to be cleaned. In late 1984 G.O.H began,to rebuilt,repaint,and clean up subway cars. In the Summer 1989 the NYC subway Graffiti died. By 1990 all the NYC subway cars were clean and no more graffiti.

[kmothersil]

It also lead to the demise of several great subway cars too. R10-R22. R10s outlasted the R12-R22s. The 110 GOH R10s were retired by September 8, 1989. The fantrip took place in October 29, 1989. Ironically four years after the R10s were retired they also got rid of the GOH R30s. What happened to both the GOH R10s and R30s was also the saddest in the subway's history. Only two R10s survive and about 8-10 R30s.

[ggGangsta4life]

if you bomb be safe man be careful god is there for you dont graff if your a toy work on papper 1st then go bomb alright it give you toy rep so just remember that RESPECT!!

toke7 toke7

tRUE

oBVISIOUS

kING

eVERY ONE RESPECTS

7 WILL LIVE 7 WILL CRY IM THE REAL TOKE7 TILL I DIE

[akerockstar]

"obvisious"..wtf..hahahahahaha­. your entire post was the dumbest shit i've ever read on youtube...

NO ONE respects you, trust me. they don't trust you because you don't know how to spell...

[Gangsterabc]

spot the JA and GHOST throwies at 00:11

[LABEL43]

you cant call them sell-outs. If its gonna make you some fucken money of course your going to take the fucken opportunity. Your not going to be a fucken low life all your life and just bomb all the fucken time. You also need to make something out of yourself, be successful and bomb on the side... You toys dont know shit.

[lexyota]

Graf ain't about makin' money!!!

SELLOUT SUCKAS!!!

[LABEL43]

I know it aint, but if the chance shows up you might as well fucking take it.

[MacAciD]

yee tru that

[CHEKFYT]

the trains are being hit still. i see em running and you can see where they didnt clean them off totally, you see that there were throwies under the windows.

[dougerber]

this report doesn't tell the whole story. there is still graf being done INSIDE THE NYC SUBWAY TUNNELS. i can understand tagging a subway car because people get to see your work. but people are risking their lives to go inside and tag the tunnel walls in the dark. some of it is 15 feet off the ground in places that don't even seem accessible. it's kind of strange really.

[javy125]

but I hear that the trains are getting bombed again and some have actualy have been let in service

[javy125]

but I hear that the trains are getting bombed again and some have actualy have been let in service

[NyCxDhAliWaLxJaTtI]

GOO NYC !!! WE STiLL AT THE TOP

[Graffiti301Poner]

i only got 2 words to say no make that 3 words ;;fucking sell outs;;

[miraoister]

HAHA!

[BadBoy2048]

Nice propaganda once more.

[TOPTACO]

i wonder who the late generation imatators are

[itstimetodie]

Lets go you @%$@$#@R$#

It can be done again!!!

[kleveone]

shhhhhhiiiiiiiiit, i'm down

[ZMDs]

Haze hasnt changed at all, hahhahaha dope!

[bugstrut]

Hold on, you think this footage is recent?! Hahahaha, this is years old. Mare has lost a lot of hair, since this was filmed.

[Danger59]

Long live grafitti world wide...Danger59

[inmyhumble0pinion]

Is it just me or does Eric Haze look identical to music producer Mark Ronson?

[Throwupsallday07]

dont worry the trains will be tagged up agein

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[crazzieddie]

AMAZING! se3 ja ghost etc!!!

[scaryyskillz]

wich one was ghost?

[crazzieddie]

ghost over pjay 13 seconds in...And that smog car at the end may be ghost as well?

[crazzieddie]

my mistake...Keo?

[hillcrestG]

nice find. pretty rare footage bro!

those were better days...

[only1duk]

where do we go now

[bugstrut]

Check out the JA and GHOST throw-ups, on the train at the start. They were part of the last genration, who tried to keep it alive, up until '89, along with people like VEN, SENTO, and the SMITH brothrs.