Looking at the new bus shelters going up quickly all over the city, you knew that some of them would be magnets for vandalism. Well, GerritsenBeach.net offers up the pic above on flickr and blog entries showing what’s happened to at least one of them. First, it was tagged up. Then, the glass was busted up. Then, someone hung a sign on it. Let’s hope it’s the exception rather than the rule.
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1 Anonymous // Jul 4, 2007 at 7:48 am
Followed the link to Gerritsenbeach.net. Most depressing blog I’ve ever read.
2 Anonymous // Jul 4, 2007 at 4:16 pm
The city never tires of designing glass bus shelters, and our youth never tires of smashing them.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com
3 bencharif // Jul 5, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Lest readers think this is a Brooklyn-only phenom, I saw the same sort of vandalism at a recently installed bus shelter on Canal Street in Stapleton, Staten Island.
4 Brett // Sep 24, 2007 at 12:07 am
This type of vandalism is rife in Australia, if its glass they smash it , if its wood, they set it on fire.The design needs to change because its expensive to replace glass panels all year, every year and it gives these fools a reward for damaging property that appears to be addictive. In Sydney they replaced the outdoor glass public phone boxes with a steel mesh and that works to disuade grafitti and vandalism.