Swastikas Painted On Vacant Foreclosed Home Creates Eyesore In Upstate NY Town, Leaves Neighbors Angry

In Monroe, New York, the Times Herald Record reports:

• For more than two months, neighbors and passers-by have had to endure the sight of three big, red swastikas, spray-painted on the front of an empty house on Dug Road. Neighbors have complained to the state police and the real estate broker who's been trying to sell the house, which was seized through foreclosure six months ago. But to their growing chagrin, nothing has been done to remove the ineptly drawn Nazi symbols from the gray vinyl siding.(1)

• "To just see a lack of concern about it — it hurts," said Paul Dreyfus, who lives a short distance away. "I would imagine this is the act of some idiot kids who don't really know what it means. But regardless of who did it and why, it shouldn't stay there."

For more, see Swastikas mar vacant house in Monroe.

(1) Coincidentally, property records indicate the house belongs to German financial giant, Deutsche Bank National Trust, which foreclosed on the four-bedroom colonial July 10, according to the story.