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Video shows MTA subway train fully covered in graffiti

Stand clear of the floor-to-ceiling graffiti, please.

Stunning footage shows an F train defaced from end-to-end with spray paint as it lumbered out of service this week.

The video was tweeted out by the Police Benevolent Association, which pointed to the vandalism as a sign that the city isn’t holding criminals accountable, sending the subways back to the bad old days.

“The 70s & 80s, now in living color on a subway platform near you,” the PBA tweeted late Monday.

“A true sign of decay, one that we worked so hard to eradicate decades ago. The taggers had plenty of time to cover this entire train, because they know there are no more consequences.”

The F train was found over the weekend while out of service at the Church Avenue station in Kensington, Brooklyn, according to police.





Cops are yet to nab the vandal or vandals involved, the NYPD said.

The Post exclusively reported in December that the MTA has seen a surge in tags on trains and in stations in recent years.

While the authority noted around 200 markings each year in the first half of the decade, the number tripled to 619 in 2018, and sat at 537 as of Dec. 18 this year, data showed.

But the MTA maintains that “major” graffiti hits are on the decline and are still dramatically down from the scrawl-covered messes that rolled throughout the subway system in the 1970s and early 1980s.

The authority noted there were 443 “major graffiti” incidents in 2018, compared to 298 last year.

“Major graffiti incidents in the subway are extremely rare today thanks to strong deterrence measures by both the New York City Transit Department of Security and the NYPD,” said spokesman Shams Tarek.





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