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December 25, 2009
Who's responsible for painting over those anti-AY murals? Patti Hagan suspects Forest City Ratner (but there's no direct evidence)
Atlantic Yards Report
For years there were murals on the east side of Carlton Avenue between Dean Street and Pacific Street, painted by Patti Hagan and Schellie Hagan of the Prospect Heights Action Coalition (PHAC), on property owned by Henry Weinstein, who has resisted selling his building and adjacent lots to Forest City Ratner.
(Photo by Tracy Collins)
It's gone now and, after eliminating governmental entities in charge of graffiti removal suspects, Patti Hagan suspects Forest City Ratner, though with no direct evidence. (Photo by Collins.)
I think it's certainly plausible that the mural was painted over by project supporters, but I also think that FCR would be savvy enough to keep its distance. (I haven't had a chance to ask about it, but FCR doesn't answer my questions, anyway.)
Hagan also think the removal was tied to the October visit to New York by prospective Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov. She thinks Prokhorov would have come to Brooklyn. However, given that there were no media reports of such a visit, I think it's more likely some of his associates visited the AY footprint.
Read on to find out whom Patti Hagan suspects as the perp.
NoLandGrab: Given the density of Bruce Ratner's spycams in the neighborhood, the crime most surely was caught on tape. Will Forest City release the video?
Posted by eric at December 25, 2009 9:27 AM