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.
I’ll take one more shot at putting some reason into this issue.
BRG: I was not born yesterday. I know, as well as all of you know, that what a graffitti vandal wants is exposure, be it with photos on MySpace, glances from passing motorists on the Manhattan Bridge or folks on the train. By linking to photos of their work, you are giving them what they want, you are rewarding them. Don’t be disingenuous with me and say that you are not rewarding them, when you know perfectly well that you are.
Furthermore,if you want to know why I got so angry with you, it’s because these are not merely some jerks who put their tag on the side of a building they were passing by. They broke into a building to get to a rooftop. In terms of the law, they were “breaking and entering” a private property, so don’t give me this nonsense that they were just some mis-guided youths. Recently someone broke into the building where I live to steal a lobby mirror, and I know the feeling of insecurity it brought to my wife, and – I’ll say it again – I can only imagine the feeling that this graffitti brings to these residents of the Chinatown building, as their building has alot less security measures than mine.
You do not seem to realize that posting on a public site does bring some responsibility with it, like not rewarding people who broke into and entered someone else’s building.
I like a joke as much as the next guy, but not at any price. That is what you seem to forget sometimes, BRG.
“Cobble, you stoop so low with your accolades.”
And you find this unbecoming? ; )
I’ve offered to send Skittles, I’ve offered a nice French red wine, and Sprite. I’m running out of things to offer…all I have left is my undying appreciation and admiration and copious amounts of fawning!
[Too much?]
These “artists” have been marking up my mom’s corner brownstone for yrs. I can not stand it and I am never there to catch them, it’s annoying and totally disrespectful to the homeowner.
i grew up on ave z next to the Coney Island Train Yard in the 80s.writers from all over the city would sneak in to put up pieces.what a great time it was to live in NYC.
Cobble, you stoop so low with your accolades.
At this point you should go ‘tag’ his house.
Rob: It’s the highly coveted Snark Of The Day award, which is only granted by the Grand High Master of Snark himself, our own SnarkSlope. [All Hail SnarkSlope!]
Snark of the Day.
It was given out a few times by the Snarkmaster himself ‘Snarkslope’
My head is spinning, I need some lunch.
okay im going to ask a THIRD time. what does SOTD stand for!?!?!?!?!?!?
*r*
Thanks Cobble and bxgrl and *rob* for getting what I was saying.