New York Subway Graffiti in the 70`s and 80`s Part1

New York Subway Graffiti in the 70`s and 80`s

[@megatronstrike]

holy shit.. how can i feel homesick for an era i never lived?

[@cresplove]

Like Kids from the 90’s loved the 70’s 😃🧡

[@3hooks781]

@@cresplove It was as great as the video suggests. And I was a preteen!

[@user-dm1nj9rj9m]

Hell right!!

[@tyreekmurillo4524]

I would kill to go back in time and ride one of those

[@duronbryant9463]

Tyreek Murillo right

[@tyreekmurillo4524]

of course i'd have to try not to get killed

[@albertrodriguez1923]

Best to go back and paint one more train with Dondi.

[@arikq_nyc438]

who woudent

[@edski8536]

@jr's channle So true....even though I like looking@/ reading {dope} graffiti👀👀...Letters not characters...

[@davidgans4285]

Love the “clickety-clack” of the trains. I used to live on Whitlock Ave and Dyckman St in the 80’s.. this is the New York I came up with, I miss it.

[@commonsense6512]

When New York was NEW YORK!

[@metropolitan6477]

No

[@metropolitan6477]

New York was not New York because of this prophetic New York stands for the best country and nothing bad

[@metropolitan6477]

Even by the way New York was in a disrepair just because of the graffiti

[@desirm9189]

Was nieuw Amsterdam 1 rst en toen geruilt voor Suriname hoe is t mogelijk rare historische wezens liepen er rond op dit stukje universe

[@desirm9189]

Loving iT all forever and ever Greek singers ook

[@vanpilatus7847]

They Had Real Good Times Back In The 70s And 80s

[@HeadNtheClouds]

Van Pilatus yeah, with all the heroin and cocaine addiction, muggings, but the music was definitely way better, and underground clubs with live music! Being able to get into punk clubs when you were 13 & get disgustingly drunk on $1 beer bust nights!

[@edski8536]

Forty Du$€

[@christiferschmuck5691]

Last of real freedom 70/80's💪🏻

[@WHALEPSHIZZ]

Graffiti stayed on train since 70s and 80s and early 90s

[@metropolitan6477]

No

[@ACLTony]

Don't forget that it was David Gunn (who eventually became president of Amtrak) that pushed hard for funds to have the subway system cleaned up and the classic IRT cars repainted with anti-graffiti paint. That's when the classics were nicknamed "Red Birds".

[@MattAttack54]

As they use to say when a train gets parked it becomes a work of art

[@tommybass40]

I remember those days. The city was definitely more exciting back then. These days it's a yuppie-corporate kindgom of sterile busybody drones who hate having fun and would rather have Manhattan look like Disneyworld for adults....without the porn theaters and peep shows of course.

[@jab7168]

Yeah also less crime.

[@kellyhyland8504]

Yea I miss the 1970s, although I was born in 1979, I’m 39 today, it still has been nice in the late 70s.

[@metropolitan6477]

@@kellyhyland8504 fun fact you are born born when Nickelodeon had Nickelodeon like 1977 is when pinwheel open and another name for Nickelodeon button but did you ever remember seeing graffiti on a subway

[@donaldharper2352]

I would it a whole lot better then before a whole lot better thank god

[@Moodboard39]

Fr

[@charlesdaniels4082]

Brake dancing I actually thought would never end seriously I thought that dance would never end because it was funky fresh it was hip

[@Supervillainmc]

These were beautiful times . The subways were beautiful!

[@man975dog]

I will never forget how the NYC subway cars were full of graffiti, both inside and outside in the 1970's and '80's. Especially on the old IRT and maybe BMT subway cars. Now in the 1990's and maybe the early 2000's, the graffiti guys came out with a new form of it called "scratchitti" where they scratch the graffiti instead of writing it with markers or using spray cans to write it and put it as artwork.

[@Moodboard39]

Hmmm

[@western-oud1898]

Many tried to copy what was going on in New York at the time but for me as a kid growing up in Birmingham England New York will always be the spiritual home of hip hop and watching this makes me wish I could've been and lived in New York in the late 70's early 80's so I could've witnessed it at first hand.

[@MrChampken]

I agree that looking at these videos, seeing pictures, and reading stories from graffiti writers from back in the day New York just had a raw feeling about the graffiti scene. The graffiti was so old school, graffiti just isn't like that anymore. Nothing will ever seem quite like New York did. But that said there is some cities in Europe that are doing a lot of graffiti trains today. Rome probably has the closest thing to New York, at least it did a few years ago, not sure if they have got rid of the graffiti. In 2011 pretty much every single subway car in Rome was covered end to end in graffiti.

[@Moodboard39]

Born 80s grew up in the 90s

[@Moodboard39]

​@@MrChampkenGraffiti still out in Brooklyn . Few yrs ago ...still

[@justarandomsovietofficerwi2023]

Back when New York had soul.

[@daniellucas4610]

I kind of miss this era.

[@Coolchannel-mu1oo]

Kind of? I MISS IT ALOT!

[@josesan5638]

Wish they still looked like that

[@regularuser]

The song at the beginning is "Fearless Four - Rockin´ it (1981)"

[@metropolitan6477]

Thanks for telling us!

[@johnzep9711]

The D line in bklyn. Heavy duty graffiti back in the day. The trains were laid up between kings highway station and Avenue u station on the express tracks on weekends. Bombs away with the spray paint. The seventies. What a time it was.

[@adanperez5691]

Yo soy del año 77 y siempre me gustó el pintar rayar graffiti la pintura DE A.F.C. Arte familia y cultura desde Guadalajara Jalisco México y gracias por el video

[@graffitijunkiejfk]

Gives me goosebumps...

[@MyRoza2009]

Same here. 😩

[@MyRoza2009]

Miss the old NYC! 😖😖😖

[@Moodboard39]

​@@MyRoza2009me too

[@oneill2200]

looks like heaven on earth

[@ShawnLamont1997]

More like shit on tracks

[@24sweetroller7]

Though I was never a fan of this kind of artistic expression, I must admit some of it was quite colorful. I think the graffiti trend was responsible for the various advertising wraps that are seen on buses and subway trains in certain cities. On a recent trip to New York, I saw one of those advertising wrapped trains on the Times Square-Grand Central shuttle.And I remember a 5 car train on the 7 Flushing line with another ad for a local university.

[@MyParthenos]

So Much Artistic Personal Writing Idenity........... Long Live These Original Writers....They Got UP. Lol

[@chicago_rocker23]

And there will never be a time such as this again. Sadly these days are long gone. The world will never look this colorful in all it's time left. All we have are the remains.

[@Moodboard39]

​@@chicago_rocker23still hitting up building in Brooklyn area lol

[@CReKKKKKKK]

was für traumhafte zeiten.!! schade das sie für immer und ewig vorbei sind.!!

[@jazielreacts3998]

I love the music at the start

[@drunkenramble4120]

Back then, Graffiti was actually a nice distraction from the smelly Bums and scorching heat during the Summer.

[@JerzeyPrince23]

R.I.P. Dezzy Dez aka DJ Kay Slay!

[@roli252520]

Igod I wnna go back to those days. New York I love and miss you sooo much.

[@classyrode.7524]

Man those Crime Aztec pieces tho. Both the green and orange one. Fire

[@BTRUEMusic]

The only reason you don't see these NYC trains tagged anymore is because their coated with a special spray so when you write or spray paint on it, it comes right off. Try it as you wait for the train to stop at your local train station although I will advise you there are consequences towards everything you do! Lml

[@davesnothere2744]

B True the paint just falls of when writing on the train

[@MW2OPSKID]

Not true, trains are still bombed in NY to this day. The MTA just has a strict policy on not letting clean trains go into service. Google clean train movement. Please don’t spread this uninformed shit again

[@jonrailz5044]

They are not coated because once its vandalized it goes out of service and does extensive maintenince and the NTT's look bad with graffiti but it will look good, only if the MTA lets people graffiti a 10 car train just for art.

[@bigben1986]

THE EUROPEANS HAVE CHANGED THIS!!

[@anthonymckinley1380]

No because you can get 7 years if caught

[@ellenleitner1876]

Great stuff wish we had it back again

[@riverjoaco]

Wonderful, nyc looking too street.

[@isell2u72]

i no i would love to go back in that era riet one

[@handsome8229]

I Remember most of the boricuas graffiting all those trains even drawing our Puerto Rican Flag in any train , for me that was the sign , that who we represent in 1 of 5 elements of Hip Hop Crew , that was our artistic sign in the world of Hip Hop !

[@OFN-1950]

music from start of video: The Fearless Four - Rockin' it

[@tyreekmurillo4524]

the intro is 🔥

[@ricardolopez1228]

FIRST GRAFS ON TRAINS, WAS IN SPAIN IN 1936!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Moodboard39]

🤣🤣

[@Nicholas_-vh6xg]

What a great throwback. 1980’s New York subway art, gritty dark but full of character. Unlike today where so many cities have become so boring and bland.

[@dustybornfree4846]

KING DUSTER

[@revmarcusstee3]

"STEE 3 TBB"......Brownsville, Tilden Projects.....Westinghouse High School...1979 Action....

[@anthonyferguson6210]

The NYC Transit Authority was asking for trouble the second that they went from the "redbird" look to the boring blue/grey color scheme back in the early 70's. Not to mention that thanks to the city's constant struggle with their budgets back then, the security inside the train yards were severely compromised. Still, we saw some innovative artwork back then

[@Moodboard39]

Never fix those damn brakes

[@TTTEFAN-ke3xp]

Now I wish I was born in the mid 1970s

[@Moodboard39]

Was born 80s

[@deeznuttsinyermoutholdscho2919]

miss those days best time ever playing and bombing all trains subway cars need graffiti they were fun to see

[@deeznuttsinyermoutholdscho2919]

loved them days fun fun fun

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

Other than the cars with full murals I'm not sad to see this go away.

[@Sketch1994]

Art at it's finest

[@ihavenolegsihavenolegs1853]

Is there a remastered version of style wars?

[@sharkycat1096]

I only watch the first seconds... the music is great

[@lolamoonlight8194]

Before they were so colorful and unique

[@Rambl147]

Poverty and a new craze= this.

[@DJURBANBG]

you wrote hiistory in the bx...created world culture...respect

[@haroldomiyaura912]

unbelievable

[@SheLookedLegal]

Berlin, do you have the video for the The South Bronx in the 70s and 80s that was taken down from your channel?

[@TheBerlin09]

yes thats true it was deleted from youtube because copyrights from BBC.. but you´re lucky i have found the same video on youtube ( is not my channel, but the uploader has "stolen" my video in 2012 haha) and not yet deleted from youtube and here the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGXEiWmQept0oJo

[@busesurbanoschile1709]

the music prisiped plis

[@grandmixerdeelob]

B

[@grandmixerdeelob]

Bro you should checkout 80 blocks from Tiffany’s

[@a.a.3589]

Good old days

[@wiiliamhamilton147]

Aah the good ole days

[@michaelmorales1475]

Nice.

[@epicgamerking7810]

The look actually looked awesome and I also wish that the trains were still like back in 70s, 80s and 90s but now it's just clean trains with boring looks even though it's just clean and actually graffiti was popular back in those times and there were was a lot of vands out there with their own style but now graffiti is just dead

[@kataone]

ROCK IN IT ITS THE SONG.. WITH KRAFTWERK BEATS

[@brayand8022]

This was the time when the 8 train was alive

[@christiferschmuck5691]

Anybody see any PJ or seen or cap or revolt some" sane RIP 🌹 🌹 " some ja ve rip

[@TheJerosler]

@GWprojects It's called Style Wars. Best graffiti movie ever in my opinion.

[@el_wilder8860]

Man those painted subway cars look awesome. Wish it was still like that. Im from Chicago and always wondered if they used to do graffiti here on the EL trains like they did in NY bacl in the day. No way folks would get away w that now in Chi as anal and strict the city has got over cleaning the city up and maintaining the citys cleanliness. Even though times seemed way harder in NY back then it seemed like the more simpler things is what made it awesome. Like Chicago when all the rich white ppl started takin over neighborhoods that less than a decade ago they wouldn't even be caught dead in are not getting tore down and cleaned up for rich ppl to live in. And all the graffiti artists and original ppl in the neighborhoods were kicked out. On the westside of Chi when I was little in the early 90s there used to be some of the most amazing graffiti murals on the side of the abandoned warehouses youd pass while riding the EL.

[@sn1000k]

People did and still do paint trains in Chicago. But they don't let them ride. I think in the 80s you could get em to ride a little. But I wasn't there. Chicago was killed in the 90s. It was a sight to see.

[@vandanerisgomes9009]

Amo história

[@bombardierdude15]

Kool :)

[@ursa41]

I second that notion, tommybass40! As a native NYer born and raised, I couldn't agree more...!!! New York has become DULL & DEAD.

[@Elainedelvalle]

How do I get usage rights for this footage? I’m an indie filmmaker

[@MrGooie]

Quik was my favorite. He still has a piece by the deagan

[@24sweetroller7]

Back in the day, I got lots of laughs with this joke: The New York Subway. What's an art gallery on wheels?

[@edski8536]

I once asked a dude could I tag with his big marker......he let me.😊

[@Moodboard39]

Lol 🤣🤣🤣 tag it up

[@charlesdaniels4082]

This was a Mark your territory this is what they did it was hip Man the juice funky fresh

[@AlexMetroman]

wow!

[@cresplove]

Bellissimo 💚

[@Gunnercv]

what is that song in the opening seconds?

[@djskinnytaulilo-makaea89]

NYC new York Brakers dance B-BOY DANCE Hip-hop Rap Art Dj

[@mlev845]

Did they even remove the graffiti pieces from the train? And how fast?

[@Honey-uv9tu]

Back when getting up was easier

[@somerandomvertebrate9262]

I like the way they play Wagner at the end.

[@scheme007]

@beenie3...no...their graffitti proof. If you piece on them, they have a special kind of cleaning solution that will wash it right off.

[@MyParthenos]

That Louie Piece...... Tho.

[@skinnyshit8888]

No wonder they looked like that in the movie Warriors

[@charlesdaniels4082]

This is how people expressed art on train's

[@Gunnercv]

@agperez88 thanks

[@pomadeone]

From outside (germany in myplace)This looks like the "american Dream" of freedom, what happend to the us today...

[@JWFdocumentaries]

Where’s this footage from?

[@Psychedelia1969]

Whats the first song?

[@juderzgaming1991]

Song at the beginning?

[@Khultan]

I can almost feel the visceral thril and the reason why it's the subway trains and not the walls for the reason for graffiti. I never could feel any motivation for walls.

[@mackdaniel131]

3:33 From here to Fame!

[@xXJohnny1989Xx]

echt cool das video.... ganz so schlimm wie zu der zeit is es jetz nich mehr in new york

[@raspergrey4935]

like graffiti train

[@chicago_rocker23]

Can you imagine what this would look like if comic books were never invented?

[@hardyhector8308]

like old train

[@roli252520]

@sUiZiDs you took the words right outta my mouth. damn I miss those days in the 80's in New York. now I'm here in boring ass west palm Beach Florida land of the dead.

[@Moodboard39]

😂damn so boring

[@Moodboard39]

NYC today is a shit hole

[@jarvistoledo7260]

ALE M.O.D , RATED XXX

[@TomHoffman-uw7pf]

This was in Philly, not NY: A tagger had "King Kool" all over the stations. He dotted the "i" with a little crown.

[@Moodboard39]

Haha , dope... Could get creative with letters

[@carlitomontana6004]

This ''IZ'' IT !!!

[@bx73S]

whats is the song ???

[@jaytownhd3534]

What is the beginning music???

[@gustavos.k9902]

the fearless four rockin it

[@TERAONE]

at :58 takes me there

[@kellyhyland8504]

I remember I used to spray graffiti on the trains as a one year old with my older brothers and sisters. I miss the 70s.

[@rock858965]

what is thr name of the song is playing the begin of the video

[@arikq_nyc438]

Rockin' It by the Fearless Four