Only a handful of transit workers, daring explorers and graffiti writers have experienced the full scope of the New York subway system. Beneath The Streets reveals this world for the first time with fantastic photographs captured from throughout the tunnels and byways of the subway. Although it provides service to over 5 million riders every day, the subway is for most a sealed system, very few of its patrons are aware of the extent and look of this vast underground infrastructure. The authors of this important historical work came up as graffiti writers, and in the process of photographic the graffiti found in these forbidding passageway bring to a light a riveting experience. They even take the reader beyond the 600 miles of active tracks to reveal many more miles diused stations and abandoned sections of this subterranenan maze.
Beneath the Streets reveals the world of street art and graffiti writers in the depths of the New York subway for the first time with fantastic photographs captured from throughout the tunnels and byways of the underground. Although it provides service to over five million riders every day, the subway is for most a sealed system, very few of its patrons are aware of the extent and look of this vast underground infrastructure. The authors of this important historical work found that photographing the graffiti in these passageways brought to light a hidden new artform.
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Only a handful of transit workers, daring explorers,
and graffiti writers have experienced the full scope of the New York subway system. Beneath The Streets reveals this underworld for the first time with fantastic photographs captured from the tunnels and byways
of the subway. Although it provides service to over 5
million riders every day, the subway is for most a sealed system. Very few of its patrons are aware of the extent of this vast underground infrastructure. The authors of this important historical work first discovered this hidden world in the process of photographing graffiti found below ground in the subway system. Now their riveting documentary work opens up this subterranean maze. The book includes 600 miles of active tracks, abandoned sections and disused stations.
