Graffiti Vandal Hits Five Vehicles in Garment District

New York’s finest are asking for the for the public’s assistance in identifying and finding the whereabouts of a man with hate in his heart, and his black marker-clasping writing hand. On the night of Thursday Jan. 30 at approximately 10:19 p.m. at 138 West 38th Street, which is a side street address of well-known 23-story art deco Bricken Broadway Building at 1385 Broadway, vandal left a hateful if somewhat mysterious scrawl on five vehicles. l Call it the Garment District, call it Midtown South, call it the 14th Precinct too: all are true. It is not clear why the unknown vandal would strike here, using a black marker to write two terms considered hateful on five vehicles, including: “F*g” (a male homosexual slur); “Ch**k” (a Chinese slur); and, mysteriously to some, “Yee.” “It was not clear what ‘Yee’ referred to” averred the Daily News. Still fresh from its pulse pounding—with loud drums! and confetti guns!—on the spot Lunar New Years reporting, Straus News suspects that “Yee” could very well be a Chinese person’s surname. Indeed, standing at 81 Bayard Street between Mott and Mulberry in Chinatown is the Manhattan headquarters of the Yee Fong Toy Association, a benevolent organization...