The Great Bus Mystery

I was on the bus one morning and saw that someone had etched "Compton 213 st" onto the back of a seat. #Naturally# I ended up googling the address and found out that it was a place in California. Google Maps showed me that the street has some very nice shrubbery and exquisitely shaped trees and the houses are adorable and they look like they're from the 70's.

Why did someone carve a street into one of the sun-faded plastic blue seats of a dingy New York bus? The graffiti artist was homesick? Bored? Random? Trying to spread sunshine to the winter stricken East Coast? Relaying a cryptic message to a drug lord, a detective, or a secret lover? I'm going to think of this Compton stranger every time I see something scrawled over the bleak walls, windows, and seats of a bus.