The restoration is now finally complete and, according to Zillow, the house is for sale.
This morning, Jeffrey Yeh reported on his Facebook page, Columbia County Morning News, that the house had been vandalized--the exterior completely covered with graffiti, railing against Galvan (the house is not owned by Galvan), Mayor Kamal Johnson, code enforcement officer Craig Haigh, and "the rich," and calling for revolution. The following images are taken from Yeh's report.
Addendum: As soon as he read about this on Jeffrey Yeh's Facebook site, Mayor Kamal Johnson must have dashed over to the site of the devastation and taken a selfie, which he made his new profile picture on Facebook.
This is disheartening. The tagging style looks just like what appeared on Talbot & Arding years ago. Ironically, this building would’ve sat vacant if someone hadn’t invested the time and resources to restore it—raising property taxes that will benefit the community. So yes, the rich are being taxed, just not in the way these vandals seem to grasp.
ReplyDeleteTo note, the misspelling of “revolt” says it all to well.. Hudson will continue to thrive and revitalize, despite these efforts to drag it backward. This home will find the right owners, ones who add to the fabric of the city in the best way possible.
Kamal's tone-deafness is on a whole different level.
ReplyDeleteThat's our mayor -- essentially nothing more than a child. A stupid child.
ReplyDeleteHow much did we pay Kamal for the time it took him to get there, take the shot, return to 520 Warren and get it online so all his "friends" could see it and comment about it?
ReplyDeleteLet's not forget the absolute horrific meaning of the crime itself. The defacing of someone's private property with these kinds of threats leaves all of us subject to this kind of terrorism. Kamal's smiling face in front of this vandalism is indeed childish. But more important is his failure to call for the arrest of these vandals. --peter meyer
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, Jeff Yeh and Kamal Johnson seem to have been there, taking pictures and taking selfies, before the police were notified.
DeleteThis is yet another Kamal own goal.
DeleteMore saliently, the Hudson voter registration has someone listed with the address of that defaced house. I feel quite confident that I can predict who that person is not going to vote for in November.
I'm really glad to see someone make the effort to restore that old house, but wonder about the location. I wouldn't want to live with a busy highway literally at my front door. ~ PJ
ReplyDeletetypical fake leftist graffiti. "Rovolt" ha ha.
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