New Rochelle police make an arrest in cheesy pizza graffiti on Westchester restaurants

More than 18 months after spray-painted pizza slices started turning up outside Westchester restaurants, New Rochelle police say they have identified a graffiti culprit. They arrested Daniel Henderson last week, but said the investigation is ongoing into what they called the “OneSlicePlease” movement that took off on social media. Henderson, 42, of Yonkers, was charged with three misdemeanor counts of making graffiti. The graffiti generally included bright, cheesy pizza slices on exterior walls of pizzerias and other restaurants, often with a tagged salute to the name of the establishment. Police said 13 restaurants were tagged in New Rochelle and they were coordinating their investigation with 14 other jurisdictions where restaurants were hit with similar vandalism. Westchester’s pizza graffiti later promoted charitable website The initial wave of graffiti in April and May 2023 included just the pizza slices outside restaurants in New Rochelle, Eastchester, Tuckahoe and Pelham. But later vandalism added “@ONESLICEPLEASE” or “1SLICEPLEASE.COM.” The website 1sliceplease.com offers an 11 by 17 art print of a cheesy slice for $75 and a framed original painting for $3,000. It promised to use a “large portion of the proceeds” to buy pizzas from the tagged businesses and give them to homeless shelters and...