Road-rage graffiti
‘Even cops chuckled’ at dig vs. Cuo & Blas
The writing’s on the wall — er, road.
Vandals painted “F--k Cuomo and de Blasio” across a nearly blocklong stretch of Brooklyn blacktop over the weekend — although it didn’t take long for the city to scrub the statement.
The graffiti strike against Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio — painted in a style reminiscent of Hizzoner’s “Black Lives Matter” street mural — went up at around 1 a.m. Saturday on North 15th Street between Wythe Avenue and Banker Street in Williamsburg, during the waning hours of an annual block party which this year doubled as a “small-businessowner protest,” one attendee told The Post.
“A few partygoers got the idea to paint in huge yellow paint with rollers on North 15th, ‘F--k Cuomo and de Blasio,’” the attendee said Sunday, refusing to be identified by name. “The party continued. Everyone took photos.
“It was a big hit. The crowds cheered, even the cops chuckled.”
But word made it back to city officials, who evidently didn’t share the assessment.
Bucking widely held notions about municipal inefficiency, workers from the city Department of Transportation descended on the display less than 24 hours later — at around 10 p.m. Saturday — to cover up the message with black paint, according to the attendee.
“They told the partygoers it came from up top and they were told the sign said ‘F–k the police,’ ” the attendee said, though it was unclear whether the workers meant that the order came from top DOT officials or City Hall.
The all-caps, block-length message was in the style of city-sanctioned projects reading “Black Lives Matter” that sprang up during the summer’s fierce protests over police brutality and racial injustice — including one outside of Manhattan’s Trump Tower, which has become a magnet for vandalism.
The phrase was also painted near Cuomo’s Albany office in June, as well as in cities across the nation.
Even while personally helping plaster that message to public property, de Blasio has nixed efforts to paint a “Blue Lives Matter” mural in support of cops, leading two propolice groups to file a lawsuit in August against him and DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg.
De Blasio and the DOT were also sued in July by Women for America First, a Virginia-based conservative nonprofit that claimed its request to have its slogan — “Engaging, Inspiring and Empowering Women to Make a Difference!” — painted on a Manhattan road went unanswered.
The DOT and City Hall didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The NYPD confirmed that a criminal mischief complaint had been filed over the incident and that an investigation is ongoing, but did not comment on the claim that cops laughed at the vandalism while doing nothing to stop it.