New York Subway, 1973

8 comments to New York Subway, 1973

• John

  March 2, 2012 at 4:39 pm · Reply

  The graffiti on those trains is a disgrace, I hope they have got on top of this in the last 40 years!

  • Matt

    March 3, 2012 at 12:24 am · Reply

    Unfortunately they have. I think there’s a lot of beauty and character in that graffiti.

  • Rageface

    March 14, 2012 at 4:40 pm · Reply

    Yes, any time a car gets tagged, they take it off at the end of the line.

    They need to post these pictures so people remember what a scumhole the train was 40 yrs ago.

• Brian Gonigal

  March 3, 2012 at 3:17 am · Reply

  They got on top of it I think sometime in the 80′s, in fact at this point the cars have been graffiti-free for much longer than they were ever plagued with graffiti.

• Deirdre

  March 4, 2012 at 8:36 pm · Reply

  Think that’s me in the 5th photo down. Or it could have very well been me. As a social worker I travel all over the Bronx. No one I work with can imagine what it used to look like. I can’t wait to show ‘em these photos.

  I knew something was coming in ’07 not because of wall street but because I began to see more graffiti and homelessness despite the belief that everything was riding high. A few months later came the crash

• blinski

  March 6, 2012 at 1:16 pm · Reply

  When this whole tag craze exploded? I thought it was rather late 70′s thing..

• Julio

  May 18, 2012 at 7:05 pm · Reply

  Beautiful pictures!

• Johnny Miller

  May 19, 2012 at 3:19 pm · Reply

  I agree, there is beauty and artistic value in the graffiti. I would love to see more photos from this timeframe!