Dondi was a well rounded writer, covering all bases; bombing, whole cars and wildstyle. He achieved global popularity for his straight letter top to bottoms via the media, in publications such as Subway Art.

... Started Writing: Approximately 1975 Affiliations: CIA, TOP, MAFIA (These are Crews and Single Aerosol Artists that Dondi had connections with). Local origin: East New York, Brooklyn. Areas hit: IRTs, INDs, BMTs Main lines: Js, LLs, Ms, 5s, 2s, As, CCs (These are train lines running in East NYC and Brooklyn that Dondi graffitied during his time as a writer). DONDI was a well rounded writer, covering all bases; bombing, whole cars and wildstyle. He achieved global popularity for his straight letter top to bottoms via the media, in publications such as Subway Art. He gained respect from his peers by doing major work tagging prolifically on the insides of all three subway divisions. Though well accomplished in the fore mentioned, DONDI's definitive attribute was the mastery of wildstyle lettering. Most newer generation writers are more familiar with the body of work DONDI accrued on IRT subway division, but DONDI made considerable pieces on the BMT

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