1970 S New York City Graffiti

Hailing from manhattan s upper west side bil rock led the rolling thunder writers a crew that became one of.

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. Shortly after the death of charlie. Graffiti also saw its first seeds of competition around this time. 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. 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. Born in ecuador and raised in queens lady pink became the most iconic female graffiti artist in new. 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 most infamous graffiti artists of 1970s new york city bil rock. Focusing on graffiti that was started back in the 1970 s in new york city hip hop at it s roots. Clean train movement era. As graffiti became associated with crime many demanded that the government take a more serious. In the late 1970s when the city was bankrupt and crime ridden subway cars were chaotic canvases for graffiti artists. These startling 1970s new york photos reveal a city undergoing an unparalleled transformation fueled by economic collapse and rampant crime.

Graffiti in new york city rise of graffiti epidemic. Modern graffiti began in philadelphia in the 1960s. Also taking place during this era was the movement from outside on the city streets to the subways. If you don t want to have adobe flash installed or are on a apple device then new york graffiti ny graffiti nyc graffiti focusing on graffiti that was started back in the 1970 s in new york city hip hop at it s roots. 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. Here the work of 12 graffiti kings and their stories.