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here we go!! FEDS 'TAG' $3M TO WIPE GRAFFITI

 

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By ANNIE KARNI

OFF THE WALL: A painter covers up graffiti in Brooklyn.

OFF THE WALL: A painter covers up graffiti in Brooklyn.

 

Last updated: 2:02 am

June 21, 2009

Posted: 1:59 am

June 21, 2009

 

Hey vandals, can you spell ERASE? Almost $3 million in federal stimulus cash will let the city wipe clean 10 million square feet of graffiti.

 

The influx of $2.9 million on July 1 will enable the city's team of 23 custom-built vans, rigged with spray-painting and pressure-washing equipment, to operate at full capacity for the first time.

 

"Graffiti gives a neighborhood the appearance of being unsafe," said Craig Small, assistant vice president of the city's Economic Development Corp., which oversees the program. It also reduces property values and discourages businesses from opening, according to Small.

 

On a recent day, two men worked in tandem cleaning a wall along a commercial corridor on Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn, one of the most tagged neighborhoods in the city.

 

"A lot of it is related to gang activity," said Small.

 

In 15 minutes, a coat of paint was blasted onto the 360-square-foot wall with an airless paint sprayer and then the truck moved on to its next destination.

 

The 34-person graffiti-removal team is currently funded by the city and hits the streets daily to respond to complaints phoned in to 311.

 

The stimulus funds will increase the size of the graffiti-removal team by 40 percent, an EDC spokeswoman said.

 

The Police Department is also working with the city, planning stakeouts around freshly cleaned walls to catch vandals.

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asande wrote:

Just arrest the punks committing these crimes and graffiti will stop.

6/21/2009 9:43 PM EDT

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Gov watcher wrote:

Graffiti is a local crime that should be handled by the local municipality. Why is Federal money being spent on this? Why should someone in Nevada be paying for graffiti removal in Queens and vis versa. A million here and a million there and the next thing you know we are talking about real money. Oh wait, the USA is out of money already!

6/21/2009 10:26 AM EDT

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spud1 wrote:

jobs jobs jobs. The stimulus money is creating jobs. The idle hands that had nothing better to do than spray paint walls can now be paid to remove their own handiwork. This one will be easy to milk.

6/21/2009 10:13 AM EDT

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Officer wrote:

RUNNING4MAYOR.COM ATTEND "RALLY FOR CHANGE" @ CITY HALL 12 P.M. SAT JUNE 27TH TO PROTEST THE BLOOMBERG ADMINISTRATION. GOD BLESS

6/21/2009 7:06 AM EDT

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realist22 wrote:

 

 

Why are we paying people to remove graffiti? Just catch these vandals (no too hard) and then have then clean graffiti for 5 years as punishment. That will stop them doing it and you have free labor.

6/21/2009 5:37 AM EDT

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