22+ 1970 S New York City Graffiti

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.
1970 s new york city 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. Born in ecuador and raised in queens lady pink became the most iconic female graffiti artist in new. Modern graffiti began in philadelphia in the 1960s. Here the work of 12 graffiti kings and their stories. 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.
Hailing from manhattan s upper west side bil rock led the rolling thunder writers a crew that became one of. 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. 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. Clean train movement era. Bubbles softies and subways. As graffiti became associated with crime many demanded that the government take a more serious. The most infamous graffiti artists of 1970s new york city bil rock.
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. Also taking place during this era was the movement from outside on the city streets to the subways. 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. Graffiti also saw its first seeds of competition around this time. Crime in general was rising in the 1970 s and it was exploding in the subway. The goal of most graffitists at this point was having as many tags and bombs in as many places as possible.