Brannan, Gounardes and Brook-Krasny Failed to Have 93rd Street Cleaned of Graffiti
Some residents drew rainbow chalk drawings outside of Alec Brook-Krasny’s office on 93rd Street after his rant at the Community 10 Board Meeting on June 15th. (Info)
On June 20th, someone took spray paint and put graffiti over the message “Love is Love,” as well as the rainbows.
Community leaders should have had the graffiti cleaned off the street with paint thinner or painted over. Four days later, the black paint is still there.
On Wednesday morning, Justin Brannan tweeted against Brook-Krasny. Brannan likes to go back and forth against the Republicans on social media.
Later on that day, Justin Brannan called Charlie Ragusa, instead of taking care of the graffiti on 93rd Street. Ragusa reported Brannan’s rant to NYC Council. (See here)
The following day (Thursday), Andrew Gounardes tweeted about the graffiti, but did nothing about it. Senator Gounardes said he stood with the LGBTQ community, but he didn’t have the hate removed from the street.
Chris McCreight, a Democratic District Leader, also played politi8cs on Twitter. He shared some word soup about standing with the LGBTQ community, but he didn’t clear the graffiti. There are enough people in the world tweeting, Bay Ridge needs new leaders, who don’t mind working locally.
On Friday, Senator Andrew Gounardes was taking pictures with Transportation Alternatives (they lobby NYC & NYS politicians), instead of taking care of the hate put on 93rd Street. (See here)
The residents on 93rd Street need politicians who are willing to take action, not play on Twitter.
In November 2021, we saw Gounardes and Brannan ignore (this graffiti) in Dyker Heights. Children attending PS 201 and St. Bernadette’s have been walking on that for two years. They just don’t care!
Those in the LGBTQ+ family should have seen the politicians move to remove the hate – not share it on and beat up the Republicans with it. Hate wins when people fail to take action.
It’s Brook-Krasny’s office so he could have had it cleaned as well. The politician’s office is only open two days of the week, but Alec should have made a trip over to clean or have one of his staffer’s clean it.
Jada Camille, journalist for The Brooklyn Paper, doesn’t live in Bay Ridge, but she wants to write partial stories about our community. A journalist’s job isn’t to take pictures from Twitter and comment on them. Jada Camille should have come to the area, taken photos and spoke to the residents on the block. Jada Camille failed to share that Brannan and Gounardes did not have the graffiti cleaned up. Hate lives on because no one took action!
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Hugs,
marlene
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