Hundreds Gather in Brooklyn's Adam Yauch Park to Protest Vandalism, Hate, and Bigotry
Last Friday, anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered at Adam Yauch park—a children’s playground—in Brooklyn Heights. That swastikas and Trump tags were drawn on a park named after the founding member of a Jewish rap group was no coincidence. The vandalism was covered up with hearts.
The small park was named after the late Beastie Boys rapper, or MCA, who was “a model of how to live as a humble yet active and entirely responsible citizen of the world,” wrote David Samuels after he died in May 2012. “Adam Yauch was a rare mensch in a world populated by natural-born assholes and egomaniacs and by people who are high or scared or both.”