By Bucky Turco | (via animalnewyork.com )
It’s not often that straphangers ride on graffiti-bombed subway cars. The MTA has a strict policy of pulling trains out of service no matter how good they look. Usually, when images emerge, they’re ofempty cars in train yards.
This weekend however, riders got quite a treat according to Instagram user @halopigg, who took photos of a spray painted M train and gave ANIMAL the following account of the rare sighting:
I was on my way home from Manhattan late Friday night around 2AM and I had to transfer from the J to the M at Myrtle-Broadway. As I was standing on the platform the M shuttle rolled in and I could immediately smell the aerosol. I looked down and there were a handful of fresh pieces over two cars. I’ve since found out through Instagram research that I caught pictures of only a few of the six total pieces. I had an extra minute or two to snap pics because the train was at the last stop, wish I could have grabbed more.
Subway Art Blog reports that “the pieces appear to be the work of LUPY, BOAT, B36 and others. B36 most likely stands for ‘Beta 36,’ a graffiti crew based in Italy.” A chi vuole, non mancano modi.
(Photos: @halopigg)
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