First off, getting this piece together was no easy task. On vacation in New York City, it was thought that getting together some street art for LRA would be an easy gig. Not! Things in NYC have changed drastically from when this photographer was growing up in the "Big Apple," with entire subway trains being "bombed" by the likes of "Super Kool 223," "Futura 2000," "Fab 5 Fred" and "Lee," just to name a few. For these people, seeing an entire 10-car train roll by with your piece on it was the ultimate.
Along with work from the cholos in L.A. in the '40s and '50s to the first "bombs" done in Philly in the '60s to the start of graffiti as we know it today in the early '70s, New York has figured in the development of street art, which isn't surprising for the birthplace of the B-boy/hip-hop culture. The graffiti/street art culture was at its plateau in the mid-'70s and defined an era in NYC history with tags, bombs and street art everywhere.
In the early '90s, though, the subway car art form was pretty much killed off with the train yards being heavily guarded, bombed trains being immediately taken out of service for clean-up and the old trains being replaced with stainless steel "graffiti-proof" trains. What we have here is a collection of graffiti/street art, much of it found on the lower east side of Manhattan in the great city of New York. Enjoy.