Brooklyn, NY – Vandals Target Spike Lee’s Former Home After Rant

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    File photo of US director Spike Lee. EPA/DANIEL DAL ZENNAROBrooklyn, NY – Vandals targeted the former Brooklyn home of filmmaker Spike Lee and the house next door after a video of one of the director’s humor-laced rants against gentrification went viral.

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    Someone spray-painted “Do the Right Thing” on the brownstone in the Fort Greene section next to Lee’s family home Friday.

    That’s the title of one of Lee’s best-known movies.

    The Lee family house had part of the title written on the side of the stoop.

    The vandalism happened three days after Lee criticized gentrification of the black, working-class neighborhood during a Black History Month speech.

    Lee’s half brother Arnold, who lives in the house that was hit by vandals, told the Daily News of New York (http://nydn.us/OKlgJ3 ) that Lee “needs to stop mentioning the house in his comments.”


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    misslydia128
    misslydia128
    10 years ago

    What goes around comes around

    ayoyo
    ayoyo
    10 years ago

    hardly a ghetto crib. a brownstone facing fort green park one of the toniest streets in fort green In the 1970s the value was 75-80 thousand today 2 million

    Anon Ibid Opcit
    Anon Ibid Opcit
    10 years ago

    For all that he loves Harlem he fled to the posh Upper East Side as soon as his bank account would let him.