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 .

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.

A prolific graffiti vandal from Wyoming has been arrested for making his mark on subway cars in Manhattan and Queens along with a Times Square billboard, police said Wednesday. Marc Meadowcroft&#82… ...

Graffiti artists struck multiple cars of an M train, completely defacing them from top to bottom with colorful tags and doing tens of thousands of dollars of property damage, the MTA said Wednesday… ...

Graffiti covering nearly a dozen subway cars is raising questions about the security of the MTA's subway system. 24/7 Live New York City New Jersey Long Island Northern Suburbs Connecticut ...

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 ...

MTA officials reported 120 incidents of graffiti on the subway last month, up 21% from the 99 reported in January 2021 and an 8% bump from the 111 reported during the same month of 2020 ...

Graffiti was still rampant and almost every car in the subway system was tagged, forcing the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) to launch a five-year initiative in 1984 to eradicate all ...

On this day, May 12, 1989, the last graffiti-covered New York City subway car was retired. The underground graffiti movement took form in the late '60s and early '70s. Norman Mailer heralded the ...

The MTA’s brand new subway cars got a fresh coat of paint this week — but it wasn’t one the transit agency paid for. Photos obtained by Gothamist show a new subway train made up of cars ...

The 1970s were known as the Subway Graffiti era in New York City. Here, you can see riders in 1976, surrounded by drawings in a train car. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below ...

New York City is a graffiti mecca for some tourists Tag time again in the Big Apple. Share. Jul 14th 2022 ... on our cars.” Graffiti on the subway began to die out in the late 1980s.