NYC c*cs seem to be on some b.s.
Riverdale man moving after racially-charged messages are vandalized on his car
Menuhin Hart discovered the hateful message, "U Shood Move" spray-painted on his pickup truck. This is the second time a racially-charged message has appeared on his vehicle after moving to predominantly white Riverdale.
BY
Erik Badia ,
Barry Paddock ,
Nancy Dillon
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, April 5
Michael Schwartz /for New York Daily News Menuhin Hart, 54, said he discovered the hateful message: “U Shood Move” spray-painted on his 2011 Dodge Ram pickup truck for the second time.
A black Bronx man feels he’s being forced out of his luxury high-rise in predominantly white Riverdale after waking Friday to find racially charged graffiti scrawled on his truck for the second time, he told the Daily News.
Menuhin Hart, 54, said he discovered the hateful message: “U Shood Move” spray-painted on his 2011 Dodge Ram pickup truck as he left to run errands with his Army vet brother.
In 2013, his truck was keyed on every panel, and the words “black n-----” were clearly scratched into the paint, he said.
“I can’t believe this,” Hart said Friday morning as he filled out a report at the 50th Precinct, across from the Spuyten Duyvil playground, where the truck was parked overnight.
A building maintenance worker by trade, Hart said he and his girlfriend moved from Norwood to the esteemed Whitehall complex on Henry Hudson Parkway three years ago in search of a safer community. Sadly, he never felt welcome, he said.
“I am going to move; this is crazy,” he said. “It’s like, what year are we in here? This isn’t 1962.”
Hart said his motorcycle also got knocked to the ground twice last summer while parked behind the Whitehall building, and he now worries the incidents were cowardly acts, not accidents.
Hart said he often was asked, “Where are you going?” when he first moved into the fancy doorman building, decked out with chandeliers, marble floors and a fitness gym. A Whitehall doorman declined to comment Friday, as did a woman who answered the phone in the building’s management office.
“If he’s African-American and he lives in this building, in this neighborhood, what happened is probably a hate crime. I wouldn’t even doubt it,” nearby resident Antone Larry told The News Friday, adding that he worked in Whitehall’s fitness center for three years before quitting over the stuffy atmosphere.
Larry, 24, said he’s half-Portuguese and half-Arabic and felt “harassed” by constant questions and stares. “Part of it is because it’s a quiet neighborhood. But if you don’t look the part, they will question you.”
Cops confirmed Hart’s police report Friday and said he also alerted them to the September incident.
Hart said he was contacted by detectives in the NYPD’s Hate Crimes unit last year but never heard back about any suspects or culprits.
His younger brother Lawrence Rowe, who with him Friday morning, said he also felt uneasy visiting Hart.
“I walked in the building, and the doorman looked right at me and said, ‘You’re in the wrong building. What are you doing here?’ ” recalled Rowe, 40, who said he had recently returned from serving in the Army in Germany.
shut the hell up
