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Graffiti became a serious part of Dondi's life in the mid-1970s. His first work in graffiti was as a tagger. He tagged using "NACO" and "DONDI", and worked on refining his style, gradually moving from simple tagging to building more elaborate pieces. [5]: 8 Using his nickname as a tag was considered risky at the time because the Metropolitan ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The R179 is a class of 318 New Technology Train subway cars built by Bombardier Transportation for the New York City Subway 's B Division. Entering service between 2017 and 2020, the cars replaced all remaining R32s and R42s. The R179 order originally contained 208 cars that were each 75 feet (23 m ...
Private collection. View of the World from 9th Avenue (sometimes A Parochial New Yorker's View of the World, A New Yorker's View of the World or simply View of the World) is a 1976 illustration by Saul Steinberg that served as the cover of the March 29, 1976, edition of The New Yorker. The work presents the view from Manhattan of the rest of ...
The New York City Subway is a large rapid transit system and has a large fleet of electric multiple unit rolling stock. As of November 2016, the New York City Subway has 6418 cars on the roster. The system maintains two separate fleets of passenger cars: one for the A Division (numbered) routes, the other for the B Division (lettered) routes.
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The R142 is the first mass-produced model class of the newest generation or new technology (NTT) A Division cars for the New York City Subway. It was built by Bombardier Transportation in La Pocatière, Quebec, Canada and Barre, Vermont, U.S. with final assembly performed at Plattsburgh, New York ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The R160 is a class of New Technology Train subway cars built for the New York City Subway 's B Division. Entering service between 2006 and 2010, they replaced all R38, R40, and NYCT -operated R44 cars, and most R32 and R42 cars. The R160s are very similar to the earlier R143s and later R179s.
New Technology Train (NTT) [1][2][3] is the collective term for the modern passenger fleet of the New York City Subway that has entered service since the turn of the 21st century. This includes the current R142, R142A, R143, R160, R179, R188 and R211 models, along with the planned R262 and R268 models. Two prototypes, the R110A and R110B, were ...
The R12 was a New York City Subway car built by the American Car and Foundry Company in 1948. A total of 100 cars were built, arranged as single units. Two versions were manufactured: Westinghouse (WH)-powered cars and General Electric (GE)-powered cars. The R12s were the first post-war city-owned rolling stock for the IRT A Division.