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!
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".
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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 !
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
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.
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.
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
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: ua-cam.com/video/B4aX6ZE6Aj8/v-deo.html
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.
Am I right/wrong that the graffiti has stopped? Anytime I've visited NYC in the past few years I've not seen any painted trains. Have the authorities issued a serious crackdown, or have the "artists" simply given up??
@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.
The double LL train had to be the most dirtiest on the outside and the most marker tagged on the inside there was no more room to tag from the ceiling to the floor
You guys will never believe this, Someone a few years back was caught graffiting on their apartment block next to the subway in Brooklyn, Nothing wrong with that But That person was an ex Cop whos job was to prevent grafiti artists. What are the Odds
As much as I am against graffiti, some of it is actually pretty cool. I think if you put some effort into it instead of scripling bullshit tag names and all that shit. If you actually out some effort and draw something then graffiti becomes art.
Those days was very very wild lots of gang they be tagging there name on the train back then people saying now new York is getting bad B's no way it's way better now then the old days I would no because I was around in those days and I seen it all I had to carry a gun all the time when the 80 and 90 the 70 was bad lots of gangs fights but the 80 was off the hook especially when that crack came out people was getting killed and rod on the train a lot and on the street thank our Lord that I maid it threw because I was in the streets back then. Real talk
holy shit.. how can i feel homesick for an era i never lived?
Like Kids from the 90’s loved the 70’s 😃🧡
@@cresplove It was as great as the video suggests. And I was a preteen!
Hell right!!
Good question
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.
I would kill to go back in time and ride one of those
Tyreek Murillo right
of course i'd have to try not to get killed
Best to go back and paint one more train with Dondi.
who woudent
@jr's channle So true....even though I like looking@/ reading {dope} graffiti👀👀...Letters not characters...
They Had Real Good Times Back In The 70s And 80s
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 $1 beer bust nights!
Forty Du$€
Last of real freedom 70/80's💪🏻
Graffiti stayed on train since 70s and 80s and early 90s
No
Good old days, I used to love riding the graffiti trains back in the 80s
When New York was NEW YORK!
No
New York was not New York because of this prophetic New York stands for the best country and nothing bad
Even by the way New York was in a disrepair just because of the graffiti
Was nieuw Amsterdam 1 rst en toen geruilt voor Suriname hoe is t mogelijk rare historische wezens liepen er rond op dit stukje universe
Loving iT all forever and ever Greek singers ook
Wish they still looked like that
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".
As they use to say when a train gets parked it becomes a work of art
These were beautiful times . The subways were beautiful!
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.
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.
Born 80s grew up in the 90s
@@MrChampkenGraffiti still out in Brooklyn . Few yrs ago ...still
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.
Yeah also less crime.
Yea I miss the 1970s, although I was born in 1979, I’m 39 today, it still has been nice in the late 70s.
@@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
I would it a whole lot better then before a whole lot better thank god
Fr
I kind of miss this era.
Kind of?
I MISS IT ALOT!
Gives me goosebumps...
Same here. 😩
Miss the old NYC! 😖😖😖
@@MyRoza2009me too
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.
Hmmm
Brake dancing I actually thought would never end seriously I thought that dance would never end because it was funky fresh it was hip
looks like heaven on earth
More like shit on tracks
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.
The song at the beginning is "Fearless Four - Rockin´ it (1981)"
Thanks for telling us!
Back when New York had soul.
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.
So Much Artistic Personal Writing Idenity........... Long Live These Original Writers....They Got UP. Lol
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.
@@chicago_rocker23still hitting up building in Brooklyn area lol
was für traumhafte zeiten.!! schade das sie für immer und ewig vorbei sind.!!
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
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.
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
B True the paint just falls of when writing on the train
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
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.
THE EUROPEANS HAVE CHANGED THIS!!
No because you can get 7 years if caught
i no i would love to go back in that era
riet one
I love the music at the start
Igod I wnna go back to those days. New York I love and miss you sooo much.
R.I.P. Dezzy Dez aka DJ Kay Slay!
Art at it's finest
Man those Crime Aztec pieces tho. Both the green and orange one. Fire
KING DUSTER
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 !
the intro is 🔥
Great stuff wish we had it back again
Back then, Graffiti was actually a nice distraction from the smelly Bums and scorching heat during the Summer.
Other than the cars with full murals I'm not sad to see this go away.
Now I wish I was born in the mid 1970s
Was born 80s
FIRST GRAFS ON TRAINS, WAS IN SPAIN IN 1936!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
🤣🤣
Lies nobody was even doing graffiti back then New York city was the first and only lier
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
Never fix those damn brakes
Wonderful, nyc looking too street.
miss those days best time ever playing and bombing all trains subway cars need graffiti they were fun to see
"STEE 3 TBB"......Brownsville, Tilden Projects.....Westinghouse High School...1979 Action....
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.
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.
Before they were so colorful and unique
you wrote hiistory in the bx...created world culture...respect
I only watch the first seconds... the music is great
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
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.
Good old days
loved them days fun fun fun
music from start of video: The Fearless Four - Rockin' it
unbelievable
Poverty and a new craze= this.
Back when getting up was easier
@GWprojects
It's called Style Wars. Best graffiti movie ever in my opinion.
Berlin, do you have the video for the The South Bronx in the 70s and 80s that was taken down from your channel?
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: ua-cam.com/video/B4aX6ZE6Aj8/v-deo.html
the music prisiped plis
B
Bro you should checkout 80 blocks from Tiffany’s
Aah the good ole days
Bellissimo 💚
I once asked a dude could I tag with his big marker......he let me.😊
Lol 🤣🤣🤣 tag it up
This was the time when the 8 train was alive
Can you imagine what this would look like if comic books were never invented?
ROCK IN IT ITS THE SONG.. WITH KRAFTWERK BEATS
I like the way they play Wagner at the end.
This was a Mark your territory this is what they did it was hip Man the juice funky fresh
Anybody see any PJ or seen or cap or revolt some" sane RIP 🌹 🌹 " some ja ve rip
NYC new York Brakers dance B-BOY
DANCE
Hip-hop
Rap
Art
Dj
Is there a remastered version of style wars?
Wer ist in 2022 da ?
@beenie3...no...their graffitti proof. If you piece on them, they have a special kind of cleaning solution that will wash it right off.
How do I get usage rights for this footage? I’m an indie filmmaker
Quik was my favorite. He still has a piece by the deagan
This is how people expressed art on train's
Where’s this footage from?
This ''IZ'' IT !!!
I second that notion, tommybass40! As a native NYer born and raised, I couldn't agree more...!!! New York has become DULL & DEAD.
From outside (germany in myplace)This looks like the "american Dream" of freedom, what happend to the us today...
wow!
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.
Back in the day, I got lots of laughs with this joke: The New York Subway. What's an art gallery on wheels?
This was in Philly, not NY: A tagger had "King Kool" all over the stations. He dotted the "i" with a little crown.
Haha , dope... Could get creative with letters
Nice.
echt cool das video....
ganz so schlimm wie zu der zeit is es jetz nich mehr in new york
Am I right/wrong that the graffiti has stopped? Anytime I've visited NYC in the past few years I've not seen any painted trains. Have the authorities issued a serious crackdown, or have the "artists" simply given up??
Given up . Many became famous ..other has died , or retired .
But graffiti on building , still going on ....lol I seen tons in Brooklyn area ..full of it ..shit
what is thr name of the song is playing the begin of the video
Rockin' It by the Fearless Four
like graffiti train
what is that song in the opening seconds?
What is the name of the soundtrack? Thank you
Well I found out one month later
Fearless Four - Rockin It
Are there still gangs and these scennery in the NY subway or are they safest nowadays?I watched Warriors geeat movie portraying the decade.
They’re safer nowadays
@@kristianl7797 That were a fashion on that time is that correct?
@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.
😂damn so boring
NYC today is a shit hole
Amo história
Kool :)
The double LL train had to be the most dirtiest on the outside and the most marker tagged on the inside there was no more room to tag from the ceiling to the floor
You guys will never believe this, Someone a few years back was caught graffiting on their apartment block next to the subway in Brooklyn, Nothing wrong with that But That person was an ex Cop whos job was to prevent grafiti artists. What are the Odds
Now they are clean I love the NYC subway its safe and ok these days
rectorman1 nah screw the trains today
That Louie Piece...... Tho.
As much as I am against graffiti, some of it is actually pretty cool. I think if you put some effort into it instead of scripling bullshit tag names and all that shit. If you actually out some effort and draw something then graffiti becomes art.
Those days was very very wild lots of gang they be tagging there name on the train back then people saying now new York is getting bad B's no way it's way better now then the old days I would no because I was around in those days and I seen it all I had to carry a gun all the time when the 80 and 90 the 70 was bad lots of gangs fights but the 80 was off the hook especially when that crack came out people was getting killed and rod on the train a lot and on the street thank our Lord that I maid it threw because I was in the streets back then. Real talk
Whats the first song?