Clearly the MTA and city do not care how crappy the neighborhood looks. The photo below captures the scene that greets people as they exit the Roosevelt Avenue train station: a construction fence that serves as a canvas for every troglodyte loser graffiti scribbler in the area. It seems like a new tag appears every day. This train station is a major transportation hub. I always see people exiting the station with suitcases (after catching the E from the JFK air train?). Imagine if you were a tourist and this sh*tstye was your first encounter with the great city of New Yawk. Well, let's not forget that first these poor souls had to navigate the disgusting airports, and then the even more disgusting Roosevelt Ave station, where people live in the Bank of America kiosk, groups of severely drunk dudes sit/sleep on the benches all day and night.... And good luck to you if you need to use the bathroom in this station: you think Starbucks provides people with public bathing facilities (via the sinks), well, at least Starbux bathrooms have doors with locks. In the Roosevelt Ave train station the bathroom doors are propped open at all times (for safety reasons), but this lack of privacy does not deter people bathing, forking, shaving their legs, crapping in the sink, et cetera.
Anyway, here's a photo of the "temporary" fence that has been up for 3 years now.
UPDATE: Wed., Feb. 17, 2016
Today the Woodside Neighborhood Association painted over the graffiti-covered "temporary" fence across the street from the Roosevelt Avenue train station. These kids did the work that the property owner and local elected officials and MTA ignored for several years. Yeah the fence is private property, but since it is adjacent to a huge train station, and across the street from the much-touted Diversity Plaza, the city and MTA really should have kept it clean. Clearly they do not give a crap about this neighborhood, though. Thankfully the awesome people- many of them teenagers- of the Woodside Neighborhood Association volunteered their time to do this job. Thank you!!!
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