1972 SPECIAL REPORT: "GRAFFITI CLEAN UP"

Although New York City faced a fiscal crisis in the 1970s, the city used several anti-graffiti strategies: punishing offenders by making them clean up graffiti-stained trains, attaching razor wire fencing to protect train yards, and developing materials that made it easier to remove graffiti.

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