Brooklyn – Council Member Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn) and Mayor Bloomberg’s Community Affairs Unit (CAU) launched a graffiti-removal effort last week in Felder’s District, cleaning hundreds of businesses and homes, including over 100 participating businesses on Coney Island Avenue newly registered for the free program by Felder volunteers.
“Graffiti is an indication to criminals that a neighborhood is open to them for business,” said Council Member Simcha Felder, as he painted a tagged wall. “I would like to thank the homeowners and business owners who signed up for this program as well as the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit and the Economic Development Corporation.”
The cleanup effort was provided by Graffiti Free NYC, a free service of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Earlier in the month, Felder volunteers walked door-to-door along Coney Island Avenue registering stores for the program. All businesses, building owners, and homeowners can register for Graffiti Free NYC for free through the Community Affairs Unit by visiting nyc.gov/cau or by calling 311.
“Graffiti Free NYC has an honorable goal in New York City: to improve the quality of life in any way we can,” added Felder. “I encourage all business and building owners to participate in this free service, and I look forward to continuously working with CAU to clean up graffiti.”
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Let’s clean up the nah nach graffiti ! What heter do they have to spray paint other peoples property in the name of spreading… Insanity ?
Let me tell you about graffiti clean up. I am a shop keeper on 14th Avenue. I had Mr. Felder’s people come in and ask to put up a large yellow sign on my display window. I don’t know Mr. Felder, I never met him.
Since the display window is the most expensive real estate I have. I put in a lot of effort to design the display window, and every inch is carefully though as to how to utilize it best. I therefore politely refused to have a politician’s poster on such a critical display window. After all, the rent is prohibitly high.
The guy told me that Felder is doing so much for the community and to my business, by avoiding tickets from the Sanitation and Department of Health. He could not understand why I would refuse the big yellow poster. He left with a cringed smile.
To my disbelief, I got a sanitation ticked the following day, and the Department of Health visited my place and conducted a thorough inspection and issued multiple tickets. Bear in mind that in the many years of my business I never had the Department of Health in my place. (Though I had several Sanitation tickets before) I don’t have any proof as to who called them. I wonder if others had a similar problem.
#1 & #2 nailed it.
The Felder signs are even on Route 17 in Orange County! While it may be too much, at least those can be recycled or thrown away vs. graffiti.
As far as Nah Nach graffiti (or any for that matter)… It all goes back to respect for others. As I have said many times on this site, Derech Eretz Kadma L’Torah. Respect has to be earned, and we as parents, rabeim, teachers, individuals, etc. have an obligation to manadate this in our community.
Having said all of this, I think it’s a good start. When I visit Brooklyn, I am disgusted with the graffitti. It not only invites crime, but it also invites too many people to be careless with their garbage. Why throw something in the trash when Hashem will cause the wind to blow it away to someone else’s property?
So while the help from the City is appreciated, we should all pitch in. Our neighborhoods are a reflection of us.
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and please remember voting for simcha felder means getting your taxes raised.