Graffiti - A Growing Problem

kitten11204 · March 2009

Bensonhurst is covered in unsightly graffiti and this is not graffiti as art or expression. This is vandalism to private property and making the neighborhood look awful.
It's enough that stores are closing and the neighborhood is changing, but graffiti can only lead to bigger and uglier things. I ask you, my neighbors to help in this effort if you share my grief.

Write the local assemblyman Peter Abbate or call 311 when you see graffiti.

For anything in New York City Parks, use the following URL:
http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dpr/html/graffiti_form.html

For Personal Property use the following URL to print a PDF for faxing:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/cau/html/qol/anti_graffiti.shtml

Thank you, here's for a cleaner neighborhood!

nychas · March 2009

I tried to contact the mayors office about the graffiti that one sees on every building when riding the D train. I was told I had to provide the specific address of the buildings and they implied that the building owners would be responsible.

I have never forgiven the Brooklyn Museum for glorifying it in an exhibit a few years ago. The museum went so far as to request visitors to their website to email pictures of graffiti.

Graffiti is vandalism it is never art.

18thave · March 2009

I like looking at the graffiti out the window on my daily commute. You can only really see it from there anyway. It's really not much of a problem. I don't notice it much in other places.

It's not making the neighborhood look awful. How about all the litter on 86th street? That's a bigger problem than some tags on a building's roof.

flonflon · March 2009

To 18thave -- I disagree.
I'm laid-back about lots of things ... but not about graffiti.
Perhaps you haven't seen what happens when unabated graffiti takes over, and big swaths of neighborhood are covered in tags (as one guy tries to one-up the other)?
#1, If you don't contain it because "it's not much of a problem," you become a doormat and get buried in it. The neighborhood starts to look like, and become, #@!% -- repellent to potential newcomers/businesses, and a signal that no one cares, so anything goes.
#2, It's vandalism, as well as obsessive-compulsive competition.
#3, Litter just requires more cans or pickup. But graffiti is difficult to remove, it's expensive (since it has to be removed repeatedly), and it often causes permanent damage.

sjd715 · March 2009

I agree with flonflon on this. Yes sometimes .....SOMETIMES..,.I see nice work in graffiti, but buildings are not the right place for it. If they are so talented why not try to do something with it? Instead they put it on the buildings for all to see and rarely is it removed. I hear it is up to building owners to do so and from what I have seen, there are bulildings covered so it is costly for them to take care of.
For some building owners, why remove it if it is behind the building? They are not worried much about it. Others fight the fact that they should not have to pay to remove it. So we are stuck with it for the most part.

Yes it does repel the potential newcomers. I myself am new to Brookyln and honestly I was turned off to neighborhoods with it all over the place. Just feels dirty and full of crime, sorry!

Also, I have seen huge displays of graffiti and can't imagine how long it must have taken that person to complete it without getting caught. hmmm
Is there a big fine for this if caught? Maybe it is not enough!

nychas · March 2009

The city will provide free paint to cover up and free removal. Here is a link to the Mayor's office:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/cau/html/qol/anti_graffiti.shtml

The problem with the crap one sees from the D train is getting addresses for the buildings.

Everyone knows that this is the place between 50th and Ft. Hamilton Pkwy?

Grateful Dead Live at 46th Street Rock Palace on 1970-11-11

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