Brooklyn Got 'Tagged' More in '08
With tighter city budgets, quality of life issues are bound to get worse. Case in point: Graffiti complaints in North Brooklyn were up 20 percent last year; arrests were up 24 percent. “It’s bringing property values down,” complained one Bushwick resident whose building is frequently tagged. In parts of South Brooklyn like Sunset Park and…
With tighter city budgets, quality of life issues are bound to get worse. Case in point: Graffiti complaints in North Brooklyn were up 20 percent last year; arrests were up 24 percent. “It’s bringing property values down,” complained one Bushwick resident whose building is frequently tagged. In parts of South Brooklyn like Sunset Park and Coney Island, complaints were up but arrests were down.
Benson,
I don’t know why I’m addressing you, but I’ll take one more shot at putting some reason into you.
You must have been born yesterday. Because you’re talking about graffiti vandals and I’m talking about graffiti artists. Are they the same?? I won’t answer that for fear of you misconstruing what I say.
I don’t know why a graffiti ‘vandal’ does what they do, but I would think that a Graffiti ‘artist’ is not only doing it for the exposure but as a reaction to society. I’m not going to say anymore on this, it’s a whole discussion on social issues.
Wow, if you think linking to photos is a reward what do you think about photo galleries?!?!?
Ansel Adams is rewarding trees?!?!
Benson, you sure have an imagination. How do you know they broke into these buildings to get to the rooftop? You’re accusing them of something you have no evidence of. They should sue you for smearing their names?
How do you know they don’t live in the buildings? or a neighboring building and hoped rooftops? How do you know they’re not mis-guided youths? How do you know these buildings have less security measures than yours? (You don’t want me to say what I’m thinking here by you saying that statement about less security in these graffiti laden buildings.
Benson, yes I do realize that this is a public forum and with it does come responsibility, so please don’t accuse me of rewarding someone for breaking and entering into someone else’s building. I NEVER EVER referenced such a thing.
Yes, I still think that some graffiti is ‘art’
but c’hiller,you didn’t jump the snark.
bxgel, I’m losing hope. I’m depressed…[and me thinks you need to stop sipping whatever that is in your glass!]
[Oh crap, she’s bringing THAT up again.” First recipient”, feh, she just can’t shut up about it!]
bxgrl, That you deigned to award me 4 meows last night sparked the smallest glimmer of hope…and I was mightily crushed when…WHO won the award? benson. A great sadness has came over me.
Clearly, I have to e x p a n d my understanding of snark. I have to delve deeper into it’s true meaning. [Perhaps there is a study group?] I have tried to “be the snark”. I have tried to “wear the snark” [as one might wear a hairshirt, I might add…] I am trying… in the words of my fearless leader ….to ‘taste the rainbow, be the rainbow’. Truer words were never spoken.
I will not rest, I will persevere.
and we welcome your insightful input rob 🙂
> “Try offering a gift certificate to KFC.”
I’ve been to the KFC on 4th Avenue, but never again.
I’m more of a Popeye’s fan myself. I used to go to the one on Fulton Street when I worked in Metrotech. I remember a very nice cashier there who had the rather unfortunate name of Shatwanda.
Anyhoo…
you people and your bickering today totally make me want to huff a can of spray paint right now
*r*
1123844- that’s really awful. I really don’t condone that- nor does anyone else. I thought there was some sort of sealer or finish you could apply to a building to make it easier to get the paint off. Anyone heard of that?
Well, as the FIRST RECIPIENT of the coveted award I have to say you must lighten up, c’hiller. Go with your more airy, ethereal, lifted on the wings of whimsical humor self and fly! SLAP!! What?! Oh….sorry. Got a little carried away there.
Er….try to earn meows, not barks (ala benson). Meows have more finesse, a rapier edge. Skittles? Sprite? You underestimate His Royal Snarkship. His tastes are refined. his interests of the highest level. Try offering a gift certificate to KFC. Or a case of Thunderbird wine- vintage only.
The 80’s WAS a great time to be a writer, most of the work was done on handball courts and trains. Once the MTA introduced the new Kawasaki cars, which when painted on, the paint would just bead up, writing was pushed above ground to private homes, roofs, and scratchiti evolved..Not to say people werent writing in these places already, it just multiplied the effort to write there.