Graffiti New York 1970s
Graffiti has divided new yorkers since it first appeared on walls signs and lampposts in the late 1960s.
Graffiti new york 1970s. 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. Crime in general was rising in the 1970 s and it was exploding in the subway. The most infamous graffiti artists of 1970s new york city bil rock. 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.
Witten and a generation of urban latchkey kids who spray painted their initials all over manhattan in the 1970s and 80s and landed in the city s street art scene are coming of age middle age. Hailing from manhattan s upper west side bil rock led the rolling thunder writers a crew that became one of. Born in ecuador and raised in queens lady pink became the most iconic female graffiti artist in new. Taki 183 the king of late 1960 s graffiti.
In 1965 darryl cornbread mccray now widely considered.