“For the newer generation who are interested in the subway, it’s still a draw,” said Eric Felisbret, a graffiti historian who painted trains as ‘DEAL CIA’ in the late 1970s and early 80s.

(Credit: Barbara Alper via Getty Images) Herein lies the ink-stained testament of NYC native and early ’80s hip hop graffiti ... Volunteers clean subway train graffiti, 1983, (Credit: Robert ...

And a copy of an early-’80s subway tag by the artist Sin appeared ... The pieces might sound like the result of some kind of graffiti-world version of Old-Timers’ Day at Yankee Stadium.

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 ... starting in the early 70s, mayors of New York vowed to ...

perhaps most notably the seminal graffiti artists who took over subway trains as their canvas during the 1970s and ’80s. The exhibit Henry Chalfant: Art vs. Transit, 1977-1987 brings back to ...

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 train ... So, starting in the early ’70s, mayors of New ...

Stand clear of the floor-to-ceiling graffiti, please ... “The 70s & 80s, now in living color on a subway platform near you,” the PBA tweeted late Monday. “A true sign of decay, one that ...

Futura (né Leonard McGurr, FKA Futura 2000) was one of ’70s New York’s graffiti all-stars who crossed over into the early ’80s art boom. Whether painting on a subway car or canvas ...

In the grand tapestry of graffiti and street art, names like Basquiat, Haring, Warhol, and the electrifying 80s graffiti scene ... artistic odyssey by painting subway trains in his hometown ...

An MTA train featuring graffiti ... subway car in a well-known 1970s and ’80s tagging spot. Modern-day graffiti came out of Philadelphia in the 1960s, arrived in New York in the early 1970s ...