Defacing a public structure is a harmless but rebellious act that reaches a larger public. This institution of art can be easily marked as elitist and closed off, but when art is made for the street it’s for everyone. The 1980s marked the heart of the Street Art movement, but participating in it was a rather dangerous undertaking. Decals, signatures, or aesthetic graphics were all things that alluded to the public take over of a city, especially in New York. This, now iconic, imagery represented the power of the people to rebrand what was already rightfully theirs. Subway Graffiti, especially, was a popular mechanism through which to leave a public trade mark. Graffiti on public transit reaches a variety of persons and lifestyles, all of whom are, now, being confronted with a graphic consumption of the city’s operating system (the Subway). Street art takes policed locations and transforms them into an arts practice, evoking a reconsideration of who has the control, why, and the role that citizens play in a community at large.