Branch Down on Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights
BHB tipster “Jason” sent in this photo of FDNY cleaning up a downed tree branch (”half a tree” he says) at Hicks and Cranberry around 10pm last night.
Update: The scene this morning shows many tree branches down, but neatly stacked for Sanitation Department removal.
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Posted : October 20th, 2009 at 7:30 am by Homer Fink under Brooklyn Heights.
Tags:cranberry street, engine company 205, fdny, hicks street, ladder company 118
Comments: 7
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Comment from mike
Time: October 20, 2009, 9:54 am
Not particularly related, but that same block has been hit twice in the past week with a grafitti vandal named “Buber” or “Buder.” It appears that this vandal was first content defacing the window of Jack The Horse Tavern, but has now moved onto the wood.
I saw three teenagers skateboarding around the area at about 11 o’clock. While I don’t want to accuse them of anything just because they were skateboarding, the corner of Hicks and Cranberry doesn’t seem like the number one location to be trying out new tricks.
Has anyone else seen anything?
Comment from nabeguy
Time: October 20, 2009, 9:57 am
It’s also on Henry Street. Bored (or is it board?) teenagers strike again.
Comment from AEB
Time: October 20, 2009, 1:58 pm
Yes, a graffiti maelstrom (well…): over the weekend, tags on the storefront panes of the ex-Blue Pig location, the store adjacent, and the apartment-house door in which lives Le Petit Marche. All of these scrawlings were, thankfully, removed.
This AM, however, I noticed that the mail drop-box near the SW corner of Hicks and Middagh was also defaced. I called 311 and lodged a “maintenance complaint” with the USPO–even got a case number for my trouble. And, within the hour, someone actually called me to confirm the complaint!
The thing about graffiti in the nabe is, it drives me nuts. Why so, I ask myself?
Putting aside my need for no-change-of-any-kind-ever-thank-you, with its concomitant demand for absolute control always, there’s something about graffiti that I find a real affront.
And I fantasize about retribution in ways I don’t when, say, I come across strewn garbage (which of course is less permanent, or potentially so).
For details…well….
Comment from Andrew Porter
Time: October 21, 2009, 1:01 am
Hobnailed boots on teenage hands come to mind…
Comment from AEB
Time: October 21, 2009, 6:41 am
I fantasize an updated version of tar-and-feathering, minus feathers and involving the very paint used to deface…..
Comment from Mickey
Time: October 21, 2009, 9:40 am
AEB: what makes graffiti more abhorrent to me is that it is personal. Strewn garbage can happen accidentally but it takes a person with no regard for me or my property to tag something with their “message”.
Comment from David
Time: October 20, 2009, 8:27 am
I saw a few twigs on Montague St the other night too!