Saturday afternoon I got onto the R train heading towards Downtown Brooklyn and found this in the last car…
“EMO” was spray painted across the underneath of the seats.
Tags on seats and windows by way of magic marker or scrattiti aren’t an uncommon thing, but spray painted tags on the subway – particularly the floor – is a highly uncommon occurrence in present day NYC.
Does this signal the return of the subway system of old? Perhaps…I have noticed a higher rate of tags staying up longer and longer of late, but I have hope that the subways are (not) returning to the crapper.
I also cannot imagine someone actually having “EMO” as a tag simply due to the whole stigma of emo music…so I’m guessing that Emo Philips had a fun time tagging up his name out of the belief that nobody would ever guess that he rides the NYC subway system.
Emo…shame on you…
I don’t think the subway will go back to the ways of the 70s, but the tagging is back in fashion. “Emo” has struck in a couple of places.
Indeed – I have also seen the Emo tag.
YAY haha love the tag, and i live by the R train O.o i wanna see it
please please please let the graffiti movement retake its place on the insides and outsides of the system! thank you crappy economy made by bush, you will let the panels roll a rainbow and the insides scream with scribbles! im gonna crush the r line… then the i and t.. and the b and m ILL BE ALL CITY MUTHERFUCKER! ME AND WICKS… SO GET READY YOU FUCKIN HIPSTERS!
oh and by the way, the image here is a tag, anything bubbled and 2-3 colors is a throw up, and anything wildstyle with lots of colors and shit is a burner… call them as such because calling a masterpiece burner a tag is insulting to the artist!