62nd precinct
Community Board 11 met last night. As no resolutions or proposals were in the agenda, the members of the board discussed various community issues. Chairman of the Community Board Bill Guarinello started the meeting off as he usually does, by hitting his gavel, just like one you might see on
70th Precinct
The other day we noticed some partially-painted over “26”s on the Dorchester bridge mural [/blog/art-music/dorchester-mural-gets-a-plaque-of-recognition], as well as on a building on the nearby corner of E 16th Street and Dorchester Road. It seemed pretty clear that such utilitarian tagging was more of a turf-claiming effort than
1904 surf ave
A worker removing the graffiti (Source: Glennschuck via twitter)The Jackie Robinson/Pee Wee Reese statue standing outside MCU Park (1904 Surf Avenue), which was recently defaced with hate graffiti [/jackie-robinson-statue-vandalized-with-hate-speech-and-swastikas-reward-offered/] , will be rededicated on August 19 as part of a “Diversity Day” event hosted by the Alliance for Coney
sanitation
Love a clean Church Avenue? Have ideas on how to keep it that way? Then join the Church Avenue BID [http://www.churchavenue.org/] and local merchants to identify problem areas and develop strategies for keeping Church litter- and graffiti-free long after the cleanup on Saturday, June 1 [/blog/sanitation/
5ninthavenueproject
I was three-years-old in 1987, blissfully unaware of the decrepit yet sort of awesome state that the New York City subway was in at that time. Back then, the mass transit system was grimy, covered in graffiti and a little more dangerous. The video above, filmed by Nelson Sullivan on
East 16th Street
The new East 16th mural was tagged by this bit of graffiti recently, as shown by this picture from neighbor Edwina. The mural was painted earlier this month [/blog/art-music/who-painted-east-16th-streets-new-mural] in an effort to keep the wall untagged as urged by C-Town, said FDC’s [http://fdconline.org/] Robin
graffiti
Captured a Park Slope moment on camera? Send it to editor@bklyner.com or add it to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/], and we’ll post it on the blog.
37 broadway
He’s a local terror. He’s been bombing Bensonhurst since the 80’s. And now he’s got an art show in Williamsburg. The house was packed on Sunday at the Pandemic Gallery [www.pandemicgallery.com ] at 37 Broadway. The audience wasn’t the usual group of art snobby
48th street
Borough Park (Photo Credit: Christopher Macsurak via Flickr)An Orthodox Jewish news website is reporting that new anti-Semitic graffiti has been found inside a Borough Park apartment building. The website Vos Iz Neias [http://www.vosizneias.com/98704/2012/01/12/brooklyn-ny-hitler-is-great-scrawled-in-borough-park-apartment-building] writes that police found five swastikas and the
courts
The site of the proposed mosque. Local Muslims painted over where a vandal had previously spray painted "He is dead" after Osama bin Laden's death.A Kings County Supreme Court judge refused yesterday to issue an injunction against the proposed mosque [/tag/mosque/] at 2812 Voorhies
61st Precinct
Anti-graffiti vehicles cleaned up East 19th street, previously a haven for vandalismRemember a few weeks ago, when we told you how a resident of East 19th Street chided 61st Precinct’s Captain Georgios Mastrokostas [/captain-faces-heat-at-61st-pct-council-meeting/]? At the time, the resident complained that her concerns about graffiti and drugs had been