By Hannah Frishberg
When Henry Chalfant sees ads on the sides of today’s subway trains, he often mistakes them for the graffiti he used to photograph in the 1970s and ‘80s.
“I think, ‘Oh my God, window down,’” he tells The Post, using the phrase for graffiti done underneath subway car windows.
New York’s days of painted trains are decades gone, but an exhibit featuring Chalfant’s prolific body of work documenting their heyday resurrects the era at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Through March 8, “Henry Chalfant: Art Vs. Transit, 1977-1987” allows graffiti-heads to relive the era through a re-creation of the “Style Wars” co-producer’s Manhattan studio, to-scale re-creations of tagged-up trains and prints and ephemera showing the Bronx during hip-hop’s birth — all while a boombox blares from the corner.
Photo by Taidgh Barron