by Sarah maslin Nir and Ashley Southall

November 20, 2016

 

On Friday, swastikas and the words “Go Trump” were discovered in graffiti on a jungle gym in Brooklyn Heights. By Sunday, the scrawl had been erased and in its place was a pile of marigolds, chrysanthemums and tiny paper hearts as a rally echoed across the playground, condemning the failure of President-elect Donald J. Trump to address a rash of hate crimes linked to his name.

“People came to the park and wrote not nice things here,” Mel Lee, 43, said quietly to his 5-year-old son, Bryce, at the rally, crouching beside him near the locomotive-shaped jungle gym.

“Who were the bad people?” the boy asked. His father could not answer. Bryce tried again: “Where are the good guys?”

The park where the graffiti was found is named after the rapper Adam Yauch, better known as MCA of the Beastie Boys, who died in 2012. At the rally on Sunday, his longtime bandmate Adam Horovitz, known as Ad-Rock, called on New Yorkers to reject the hateful messages of the defacement and many other episodes in New York in recent weeks against Muslims, blacks and other minority groups.

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