When Vulgar Fellatio Graffiti is Scrawled Outside this Hester Street Elementary School
Photo: Karlin Chan
Students of Public School 42 on Hester Street (aka Benjamin Altman) were briefly greeted with a vulgar message on the way to class this week.
Someone spray-painted the oral message, “Not Gonna Suck Your Dick,” on the sidewalk and vacant store just across the street (58 Hester). Clearly visible to kids in school.
Or, was…
Chinatown activist Karlin Chan spotted the graffiti and took matters into his own hands. The remedy – smearing the window paint and manipulating a few of the letters on the sidewalk.
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