Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NEW YORK, April 25 (UPI) -- Graffiti painters are using a new tool -- acid -- often combined with paint or shoe polish to permanently etch windows on New York's subway system. Transit officials vowed Monday to fight the graffiti that has surged in the past six months and is far worse than former Mayor John Lindsay faced in the 1960s. Advertisement "Not on my watch are we going to have what John Lindsay had when he was mayor," Barry Feinstein of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Transit Committee told The New York Times. "I've seen it on every line, on almost every train," said Andrew Albert, a non-voting Transit Committee member. Albert said art supply stores are the most common source of etching acid that is permanent on windows of subway trains bought before 2000. Officials said they would investigate the cost of applying Mylar to all subway train windows. The protective plastic coating peels off, taking the acid-etched and often crudely executed graffiti with it.
