1970 S New York City Graffiti
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1970 s new york city graffiti. Graffiti was one of those crimes that added to the sense of disorder and anarchy that both encouraged other crimes and made new york kind of a scary place to be. In 2014 new york city s subway cars look mostly homogenous with exteriors of blank steel and interiors decorated with the smiling faces of venmo lucas and dr. Around 1970 71 the center of graffiti culture shifted from philadelphia to new york city especially around washington heights where suspects such as taki 183 and tracy 168started to gain. Thirty years ago at the height of new york city s war on graffiti and in an act of faith utterly incommensurate with the city s public demonization of graffiti writers a group of teenagers named shy 147 daze min and duro met with mta official richard ravitch and proposed a deal.
The stylish mid 70 s beyond in the mid 1970 s with tags going up on walls across new york city and subway cars surfacing each morning covered in elaborate new pieces graffiti art became a political target. As graffiti became associated with crime many demanded that the government take a more serious. Born in ecuador and raised in queens lady pink became the most iconic female graffiti artist in new. Here the work of 12 graffiti kings and their stories.
Focusing on graffiti that was started back in the 1970 s in new york city hip hop at it s roots. Graffiti in new york city rise of graffiti epidemic. Also taking place during this era was the movement from outside on the city streets to the subways. Reeling from a decade of social turmoil new york in the 1970s fell into a deep tailspin provoked by the flight of the middle class to the suburbs and a nationwide economic recession that hit new york s industrial sector especially hard.
Hailing from manhattan s upper west side bil rock led the rolling thunder writers a crew that became one of. In the late 1970s when the city was bankrupt and crime ridden subway cars were chaotic canvases for graffiti artists. The goal of most graffitists at this point was having as many tags and bombs in as many places as possible. These startling 1970s new york photos reveal a city undergoing an unparalleled transformation fueled by economic collapse and rampant crime.
Shortly after the death of charlie. Bubbles softies and subways. Modern graffiti began in philadelphia in the 1960s. Crime in general was rising in the 1970 s and it was exploding in the subway.