Although she is not an expert, Ashley Pereira gave free rein to her creativity and covered the graffiti that was damaging a wall located right in front of her school: “I feel happy because my community is clean and that when you can come here, you can see that we did this job where everything is clean so that people feel safe coming to school”, commented the young student.
Students painting the walls of their neighborhood.
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And like her, several of her classmates at the 311 Academy of the Arts in Corona, Queens, put on plastic aprons and took up rollers and brushes to demonstrate -by example- that you can have clean and beautiful walls the neighborhoods of the 21st district.
Precisely, the councilman of Ecuadorian descent, Francisco Moya, who represents the neighborhoods of Jackson Heights, Corona and East Elmhurst, announced a new effort by his office to clean the streets of these neighborhoods: “To give the message that we are going to maintain our community but we are also talking to the local police because they are also taking photos of those who are putting this graffiti here, taking into account that it keeps repeating itself and several times, to also have more patrols that pass through here and alert our community to watch as well and if they see something, then call 311 or 911”.
Councilman Francisco Moya in Queens.
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In addition, he pointed out that they will have a budget of almost a million dollars to implement several areas with surveillance cameras and thus be able to find the antisocials that damage and dirty the streets, or to identify those who are from other parts of NY and throw garbage. on the streets of your district.
“That’s why I also bring the resources to put cameras here in the community, to make sure this isn’t happening all the time,” added Councilman Moya.
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