By Sarina Trangle
The Woodhaven Residents’ Blocks Association wants to keep 311 busy.
At its Saturday meeting, WRBA director president Ed Wendell revealed a four-point plan to fight graffiti and emphasized the efficiency of calling 311.
He said policy changes allow the city’s general telephone information service line to dispatch staff to clean up graffitied first-floor locations without consent from the owner.
“If you call in two graffiti complaints a week, just two … that comes out to eight per month. You’d have 25 locations by Oct. 1,” Wendell said. “And that’s just one person.”
Wendell urged attendees to report graffiti along Jamaica Avenue between Dexter Court and 100th Street to the Woodhaven Business Improvement District, which has a program to remove tags.
He invited residents to join the block association in painting over marks on mailboxes and utility poles.
He also instructed them to call City Councilman Eric Ulrich’s (R-Ozone Park) office for graffiti above the first story, so his staff can add it to a private graffiti removal initiative hit list.
Reach reporter Sarina Trangle at 718-260-4546 or by e-mail at strangle@cnglocal.com.
