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 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 .

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 ...

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… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Riders reminisce as New York retires iconic subway cars. ... His job, he said, was to carry the backpack full of spray paint for graffiti. Timmhotep Aku, 45, another native New Yorker, ...