UPDATE: As of Dec 28, Awesome John C. (AKA, Fire Alarm Guy) removed the graffiti from the windows, and someone else (the owner??) removed some of the graffiti from the side of the building. YAY!!!
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A couple months ago I wrote about a vacant building on 43rd Avenue. It was constructed several years ago. It went up in record time (I hadn't known a building could be brought into being so quickly). But then I guess the owner ran into problems- financial or permit issues, who knows- and construction came to a halt as quickly as it had begun. For the next couple of years this majestic edifice was "protected" by a few planks of collapsing, rotting, and graffitied upon plywood and a mote of garbage. After several neighbors called in complaints to 311, someone (the owner?) finally took down the pathetic construction fence, removed the garbage, and cut the weeds. Then at least it looked much better. But now I fear that it looks TOO good, at least to local young(ish) people who see it as a nifty hangout spot. They have marked their territory with some illegible scribbling on the back door, the stairwells (including the marble), a side window, and the walls. Yesterday I went down both stairwells (there's one in front and back) to pick up trash. As expected, there were many used condoms and drug baggies. There was plenty of other crap as well, including booze bottles, a hairbrush, a baby bottle(?!), a pair of eyeglasses, and a carpet of ciggy butts.
I don't know what to do. I guess we can't paint over most of the graffiti (just the back door, which requires some simple white paint). Can graffiti be scrubbed off bricks? Or marble? It's so pathetic that these losers even tagged the marble. Really, what in the fork is wrong with people? How ugly do they want their environment (and, by extension, life) to be?
At least the doors are locked now. Of course, this could just mean that the people living inside like to keep their "home" safe from intruders.
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