Not In Our House: Bensonhurst goes into battle against graffiti vandals
Marty Golden grabbed the paint spray hose, aimed it at the wall, and fired. Out came a splash of yellow paint, firing out of the hose like bullets out of a machine gun. Golden, a state senator, had a big smile on his face. He was clearly having fun painting a wall on this Thursday morning.
But Golden (R-C-Bay Ridge-southern Brooklyn) wasn’t painting a wall just to give it a fresh coat of yellow. His work had a serious purpose. The wall was located on the side of a building at 6401 18th Ave. in Bensonhurst and before Golden grabbed the hose, it had been covered with graffiti.
Golden had arranged for a Graffiti-Free NYC truck to be dispatched by the Mayor’s Community Assistance Unit to paint over graffiti covered walls on commercial buildings on and around the 18th Avenue shopping strip for the day on June 6. Under the Graffiti-Free NY program, the Bloomberg Administration assists communities seeking to clean up graffiti. Each truck is equipped with a power hose to paint over ugly graffiti.