Child’s chalk doodle draws graffiti citation
Parents of 6-year-old artist warned to clear away flower or face fine
NEW YORK - Chalk it up to New York City's crackdown on graffiti.
A 6-year-old child's chalk sketches on her family's stoop brought her parents a graffiti-removal notice that threatened a $300 fine.
First-grader Natalie Shea said her mom got a ticket for graffiti and it wasn't even graffiti.
"It was art, very nice art," Natalie said.
But a neighbor in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood saw it differently and dialed the complaint line.
The family was sent a form letter of complaint giving the family 45 days to clean up the graffiti.
Natalie's mom said she'll act more quickly to wash off the doodles in the future.
As for the offending blue flower, it was erased by a heavy rain.
please tell me they are kidding with this news story!! honestly, when does drawing on the sidewalk or front stoop constitute graffiti?! and since when do we have neighbors who are so nit picky that they call the cops about it? holy lord there is so much wrong with this posting that i just had to blog about it. courtney, you better watch out where your darling little man doodles with chalk when he gets a little older!! :)
3 comments:
i wish there was a photo go with it!
i guess i'll have to keep the chalk drawing to an easel in his to-be play room (next house...) i get that in the strictest interpretation a sidewalk chalk drawing could (arguably) be considered grafitti under the city code, but come on... are they hurting for revenue that badly that they refuse to distinguish between eraseable child's street art and true graffiti- which is usually permanent, costly to remove, and often ridled with gang insignia?
i wish there had been a photo too. that would have really made the story that much better!
and c, i love your lawyer mind! :)
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