NEW YORK — Sunday marks 120 years since the New York City subway system opened to the public .
There’s a tempo when hopping on the subway that doesn’t only come from the trains themselves. You might, in fact, hear musicians slapping to the beat of their own drum, and there’s a pulse from subway cars that vibrate through neighborhoods.
There’s a culture underground, and it means something to the millions of riders who rely on the subway.
The art of subway graffiti
Led Black – a writer, blogger and entrepreneur who grew up in Washington Heights – says he can attest to the energy which emerges from above and from down under.
The 191st Street stop on the 1 line, the deepest subway station in the city, sparked his appreciation for the “iron horse.” The MTA says the station sits 173 feet below street level. The only way to access the platform from Saint Nicholas Avenue is by elevator, or traversing through a nearly 1,000-foot art- and graffiti-filled tunnel from Broadway.