Objections have been raised by residents and one local lawmaker after the DOT painted over beloved artwork inside a tunnel in Washington Heights. VMurdockTV has the story.
-- Have efforts to clean up a tunnel that connects commuters to the subway been taken too far? That is how some feel after the Department of Transportation painted over iconic artwork in upper Manhattan.. Calls by community leaders to clean up it up were answered by the DOT over the weekend -- and then some."I was instantly shocked. I was like, wow," resident Ivan Minaya said."We never talked about painting the tunnel. That was not part of the plan.
And it's already making a comeback as tagging covers some of the recently blanked canvas. Resident Milagros Henriquez said as of 9 p.m. on Sunday she saw nothing but eggshell.
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