A new proposal would not only make it easier for the city to get rid of graffiti, but legal painting also. Legislation before the City Council would allow clean-up crews to trespass on private property and destroy all manners of public art without first getting the owner’s permission. People wanting to preserve art on their property would have to explicitly request that buff squads back off, but it’s not clear how. If the preservation process is anything like the “very labor-intensive and cumbersome†system the city uses to get permission to clean graffiti up now, then a lot of beloved public art will be in danger of destruction.
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See my NYC Rhymology rhyme for this at my link… I listened to Bloomberg introducing this legislation on whatever public access channel it is where the play his "speeches" over and over… Incredibly aggressive towards art on public property, pretty unbelievable.
The culture police are back and now they've re-written the laws to trespass on private property? WTF?
I of course meant *private* property in my last sentence above… But "culture police" indeed. Giuliani forced Disneyfication on public spaces, now Bloomberg wants to do it to our private spaces??
nINJAS NEED TO MAKE A VAN LIKE THIS UP AND GO TO TOWN. NO ONE IS GONNA STOP THEM.