New York City Subway Graffiti is Back, City Officials Refuse to Admit Borough Natives are Responsible
Tuesday. 12.12.06 8:47 am
According to the NY Daily News, the illegal tagging of subway cars is slowly becoming a recurring trend-- a trend responsible for the 1982 hip-hop classic "Wild Style"--but the NYPD Transit Bureau is publicly blaming "foreigners" as a means to discouraging New York City paint pros from catching the graffiti bug themselves... even though they've already been doing it.
The cops-- the same manipulative cops who recently tried to shy the attention away from their wrong-doing during that unjust shooting in Queens by inventing a "fourth witness who escaped from the scene of the crime"-- "estimated" that 70% of the tags found on New York City trains "are being carried out by Europeans." Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. Not to mention that in this Daily News article, they've appeared to have made up conspiracies of where some of these "foreign" tags originated. Please.
They clean the trains up within hours (even though it takes up to 8 hours per train), which is easily done because the graffiti epidemic has not hit hard just yet, which explains why the cops are blaming out-of-towners to distract city natives from getting busy with the spray cans... they're afraid of another 1970s out-of-control tagging epidemic, which will make it damn near impossible to keep the trains clean. But riding the 2 train in The Bronx is like sitting in a trash dump, so what's the big deal. A little paint here and there would sure brighten my commute.
But according to former '80s tagger Lady Pink, New York City's most famous graffiti artist and also a star in the movie "Wild Style," says that New York City has grown tired of painting on trains, because they know the paint will just get removed anyways. The point of the whole thing, she says, is for it to run on the tracks and be spotted by others.
But if the cops ever admitted who's really responsible for tagging the trains, trust that others would follow suit... and the painting would run far from their control. If last week's report from the Daily News sticks, which says that vandals have tagged and scratched 162 cars, more than triple the number in 2004, then there might be a problem. This is what they get for constantly raising prices on weekly and monthly Metro Cards.
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