A New York City subway car in 1976. Graffiti on the trains was a divisive issue at the time, but the artform long ago moved above ground, into studios and galleries.

Graffiti layered on top of NYC DOT sanctioned murals, inside the 191st Street tunnel which connects Broadway to the 191st Street subway station in Washington Heights on Jan. 17, 2023.

A new generation of graffiti crews are blanketing New York subway trains in spray paint — a trend that some transit workers say resembles the bad old days of the 1970s and 1980s. Metropolitan… ...

Still, subway graffiti persisted. For two decades, the MTA failed miserably—sometimes laughably—in its attempts to fix the problem. Like the time it decided to repaint 7,000 subway cars white.

Graffiti is on the express track back into New York’s subway landscape, MTA data obtained by The Post shows. After holding at around 200 markings in stations and on trains per year in the fir… ...

But after that number fell again to 208 in 2020, according to the MTA, subway graffiti shot up in 2021 and is on pace to blow past the 300 total reports from last year — with 89% occurring in ...

In just about every movie set in New York City in the 1970s and 80s there's an establishing shot with a graffiti-covered subway. Saturday Night Fever That ...

Graffiti has made a resurgence on the city’s subways in recent years. The earlier half of the decade saw just around 200 incidents, while there were 619 in 2018, The Post reported in December .

Subway graffiti expert (and Gothamist co-founder) Jake Dobkin has previously noted, "Europeans do love to come to NYC and try to get up on a train. Most New York writers don't, because they know ...

A graffiti-covered NYC Subway train, its doors open at South Ferry Subway station in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City, 1983.

They’re part of a long delayed effort to replace the subway’s R46 trains, which were first put into service during the graffiti-filled era of the 1970s and 1980s.

New York City Massive NYC subway vandalism window smashing spree akin to 9/11 ‘warning signs,’ Guardian Angels founder ... You see that with shoplifting, boosting, graffiti, vandalizing, ...