Clean Up!
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
The Flatbush Graffiti Clean Up is fast approaching, and we need everyone’s help. “Right now there have been NO reports from the neighborhoods between Cortelyou Rd and Church Ave though we know there is graffiti there”, says Courtney Williams of FDC.
If you have never participated in an event like this, it is a wonderful way to get involved in the community, meet your neighbors, and do a bit of painting. If you are considering, please drop them a line so that enough supplies can be procured, though it is unlikely anyone would turn you away the day of. There is something for everyone to do, kids and grownups alike.
This is what we need to do right now:
- over the weekend, if you spot a graffiti in the neighborhood – a fence, back of a building, mailbox, garage doors, lamp posts, wall, anywhere at all that bothers you, please snap an image if you can, note the location and the background color (so that it can be matched) and send it over to tagfreeflatbush@fdconline.org.
If you don’t report, then the graffiti just stays there. And graffiti just attracts other graffiti.
Courtney also says that “If neighbors have graffiti on the residential property they can also submit a “Forever Graffiti Free” graffiti removal consent form to the city that gives the city permission to automatically remove graffiti from their property if they are on a removal route. Forms in English, Spanish , and Chinese here http://www.nyc.gov/html/cau/html/qol/anti_graffiti.shtml.”
We look forward to seeing many of you around the neighborhood the first weekend of June with rollers, brushes and paint!
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Nai
