Opinion: How Hate Came to This Celebrity-Favorite Brooklyn Neighborhood

Hate arrived in Brooklyn Heights at 4 a.m. Wednesday in the form of at least two masked figures who passed through the early morning darkness wielding canisters of red spray paint.

This neighborhood of elegant brownstones and stately apartment buildings just on the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge from Lower Manhattan has in years past been home to literary greats such as Wilt Whitman, W.H. Auden and Norman Mailer. Its current firmament includes a host of A-list actors, including Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Paul Giamatti.

The masked figures slipped onto Hicks Street and entered the courtyard of a six-story luxury co-op where Lena Dunham of the HBO show Girls lived until 2017. The present residents include a figure from the art world who should be celebrated by all those who experienced the horror of the most monstrous hate crime in the city’s history: the attack on the World Trade Center.

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