Who Vandalized the Citi Bikes in Crown Heights
An unknown person removed the stickers from the Citi Bike shared bicycles on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights and switched them with yellow “Welcome Moshiach” stickers, on Monday. Photo
An unknown person removed the stickers from the Citi Bike shared bicycles on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights and switched them with yellow “Welcome Moshiach” stickers, on Monday. Photo
Chilul hashem
An op-ed on Lamah Tisrau למה תתראו and the Rebbe’s clear words, not to mention Shulchan Aruch’s, of starting up with people on the outside and about Chilul Hashem would be warranted. Not sure if publicizing every stupid thing that every genius does is the way to go though.
When the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe came out with the proclamation that Moshiach is near in the 1940s, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe (then the RaMaSh) printed Moshiach stickers (yellow stickers that said לאלתר לגאולה) for bochurim to plaster New York with (they would go around every Friday, much like mivtzoim of today, and put them up on trains, bus stations, etc.). The Rebbe himself is said to have been seen putting up stickers around the city. A bochur (Meyer Reich?) was once arrested while putting up the stickers, and the Rebbe got him released and thanked him and gave him a… Read more »
Next time, maybe don’t put CitiBikes in a neighborhood that doesn’t want or need them! I support whoever did this 100%!
Why bring the Rebbe into your stupidity?!
No, it should be the community counsel on Kingston who are sleeping, to help us get rid of it! It would never fly in wilamsburg or boro park’
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That means you could
vandalize?
It doesn’t matter whether you like them or not, this is illegal and a huge chillel hashem. You don’t get to vandalize anything you want just because you disagree with something the government is doing.
because the citibikes are being used.
The fact that you think this makes it okay is also ridiculous. They’re destroying property that isn’t theirs. That’s never right. The same goes for all the stickers on the lampposts.
Put all the moshiach stickers you want on your own bicycles, homes, cars etc. Not on public property.
Destroying?!
This is very subjective statement. I don’t need them too, but objectively speaking, I know 100% they are needed in our neighborhood. How? I go on Kingston few times a day. Sometimes, those lots are empty, sometimes half empty and sometimes, although more rarely, they are full. Plain facts.
So yeah tons of food is great but no exercise to burn it off. It’s like you want everyone to have health conditions
this is for sure the opposite the rebbe’s kavanah
That it’s against the Rebbe’s kavana if the Rebbe himself did this in the 1940s?
“Who vandelized” as if looking to blame. Not exactly an appropriate title for a news article
This is funny…
Making fun of the rebbe isn’t funny
אפריל פוול
This is the opposite of what the rebbe wants!!!! I agree that there shouldn’t be these bikes in ch but it’s so not ok to put the rebbes pictures like that and then they’re gonna be ripped off and put in the garbage rachmana Litzlan I’m so upset about this!!!! Who agrees??
People will finally get some exercise!!
Go walk if you want excersize
from already very tight parking spots available
it is a known thing that there is bchlal an agenda by liberals to make it uncomfortable for people to have a car in ny
If you goto Williamsburg the bikes are on the sidewalk! I think bikes are great, but when taking up precious parking spots??? I mean-
First of all, I’ve seen worse “vandalization” on mitzvah tanks like Palestine graffiti
Second of all, can you put stickers on the speed cameras on eastern prky and president st
Thank you
couldn’t agree more
The fact that they put hateful things on mitzvah tanks makes it ok to touch others property?!!!!
True but no one ever gets punished for doing bad things to the Jews AND Palestine graffiti is hateful and invites more while this is harmless.
While I do think vandalism and graffiti etc is not right in this case I am not crying for CITIbike. They have big contracts with companies are happy to remove these stickers for a hefty price.Im sure the independent contractors are real happy about this one. Also as a side point, If CITIbike would do a survey or two and see if this is even NEEDED on this block when there are so many other citibike racks in the neighborhood instead of the bank where already parking space is at a premium. ( nearly impossible to jump into the bank)… Read more »
Lyft is loosing money by the day from citibike. Do your research
the gov. compensates it all.
If you don’t like that they are there calmly ask to remove. This a disgrace to the Rebbe. And may I add Geneiva!!! Stealing the stickers!!! Shame on whoever did this!!
Do you have to be a certain age or can anyone be so negative
Who said that this was out of anger. We have to publicize that Moshiach is here
Good job keep on going
Maby the city will take it away
You should be looking for the responsibles on a different chabad news website.
the guys that did probably dont go into collive :))))
ouch
Although I may not support the use of the Rebbes picture on such a low grub object (used as well by GOYIM!), however, that’s what they get for trying to fill our Shchuneh, the place of Beis Rabbeinu Shebibavel, with these “Shtus Vehicles”! The city should be ashamed of themselves for helping fuel the ever-growing Goishe “vibe” in Crown Heights!
There’s nothing wrong or Goyishe about bicycles. Unless you’re one of those people who also thinks sports in general are Goyishe, leading kids to have no healthful outlet—a proven cause of depression, etc.
so yes, that includes sports, especially if they become a main focus, or are done in ways that are not in line with halacha, just like anything else, for example using your phone, going shopping, having a conversation, what you watch or listen to etc etc etc
Were you one that wrote the Flower shop music Oped last week?
Maybe people will get some exercise finally!
It was me I take full, responsibility.
Yechi hamelech.
Moshiach Tzeitin! Even the Goishe bikes are advertising Moshiach!!!
at least someone is trying to look at things positively!
would you stick hashems name on a bicycle?!
Between a bicycle and a mobile home (i.e. mitzvah tank)?
College students do these types of pranks all the time. Harmless fun.
I’m glad your role model and guidelines are based off what goes on in college but don’t mix the Rebbe into it !
Baruch HaShem
I take off my hat to the person that did this
Tzfatim run ch
בושה שכך מוציאים שם רע על הבחורים הצפתים שיודעים כל כך הרבה חסידות בעל פה
Beside of tzafatim other people also know chasidus
Please stop blaming bochurim from that Yeshiva they have 600 graduates a year do you know how much חשד בכשרים that is? And often times has nothing to do with anyone who ever got close to that Yeshiva it’s a stigma
why would he do this hepech of the rebbe wanting and he should go right now and feel bad and switch them
you don’t know who did it
i got excited and thought maybe the bikes were vandalized and the stands ripped out of the streets. now that’s something I’d like to see happen. bring back our parking spots!!
The tzfasim?
I will add: I saw a huge rebbe sticker on the floor of a brooklyn train platform with hundreds of people walking over it throughout the day. I just dont understand.
We saw similarly that what we thought was a catastrophe when chasidus was getting stepped on like garbage was in reality a proof that we’re doing a good job
There’s no mivtza from the rebbe to put up stickers and 100% no mivtza to sticker up the Rebbe’s holy picture
There’s a letter of the rebbe to someone who had an idea to make stamps with the alter Rebbe’s picture and the rebbe said no because it wouldn’t be treated properly
They should be fined for doing this to the city it’s not right they should take the stickers off.
The bikes belong to us because we payed for them from money that is stolen from us. Sorry what’s not right is taxation without representation. Also taxation is theft.
That’s simply not true.
mta is a company/business they don’t fund these with taxes
Best bumper sticker I read was:
Don’t steal
The government hates competition
Deal with it themselves I’m sure there is evidence on cameras
Till when with the mishugasen and chilul hashem?
Ad Mosai!?
Putting these bikes right in between 749 and 770 is just asking for this to happen.
And what’s the problem anyway so the city which obviously had a big enough budget to put in a few useless bike racks needs to also take off a few stickers?
Finally someone with a clear view on the rebbes kavanah.
When the rebbe campaigned to spread the message of moshiach, the rebbe specified for it to be done “bdarchei shalom”.
defying a government who actively rejects the safety and financial needs of our community is “the way of peace”.
I’d like to see more of peaceful protests as done by this justice warrior around town until our demands are met.
sincerely, concerned resident.
Doing this makes any message of Moshiach that’s intended lost and is an embarassment.
there are cameras in 770,so go check who put the stickers up on the wall and you have your guy!
Bro here thinks that the cameras could see a guys face so clear
Good job, who ever did this , avrohom Pariz used to go around putting up stickers lalter legeula , on the subway station.and buchrim in the time of Korean war used to put on stickers lalter legeula on benches of eastern parkway. so i see no problem here , know if you want to tell me the Rebbes picture e.t.c as a claim so I will tell you that its just like the moshul of the diamond on the top of the kings crown, if even one drop goes in in ..
How can anyone call the promotion and spreading of awareness of Moshiach (and the Rebbe’s picture) “vandalism”??
When visiting Eretz Yisrael you see stickers/signs of the Rebbe everywhere and I personally love it.
It’s quite shocking to read some of these comments by “Lubavitcher’s”
i think the Rebbe also put up those stickers
The rebbe actually told avrohom Paris to stop putting around papers saying on it that the rebbe is moshiach
Crown Heights is a place where people technically believe in G-d, learn Torah, spend all day thinking about and doing mitzvahs…how is it even possible to have the time or ‘room’ to do something like this???
Basics
YOU CANT LEARN HOURS WITH NO BREAK
THATS WHY BOUCHRIM HAVE A BREAK
Each one is its own mitzvah tank
mitzvah tanks are either privately owned or rented.
These bicycles are for crown heights (guess what that includes people who aren’t Lubavitch) to use and not for people to deface.
want to have a bicycle mitzvah tank? great. buy one.
As far as I know these are rented….
I don’t get the point of this article
If you think it is wrong then don’t post it
אזוי דארף זיין
Hey I asked for bikes in crown hts, cuz that’s how I get around, and I love taking the Rebbe with me wherever I go, dw, the goyim love the Rebbe!
Everyone calm down! This is crown hts! It’s a cool place! Khan Tziva Hashem es habrocha! And the Rebbe is HERE, so let’s take him with us on the bike ride and spread the 7 noahide laws, it’s awesome! Yechi hamelech!
All you have is the Rebbe’s picture, not anything what he said or wanted you to do. Just a picture.
I like this approach of taking the Rebbe with us everywhere. Years ago people outside of Chabad were upset that the Rebbe’s picture was a focal point in our homes. Well…. it’s REALLY a focal point now!
I think the bikes are great I see a lot of Jews on bikes using them and getting exercise.
Keep up the great work!!
It’s Geneivah to put stickers or graffiti on property that doesn’t belong to you. End of story.
Similar stickers and posters (and graffiti) are posted All.Over.Eretz.Yisroel. It’s an embarrassment that the Rebbe’s Heilige Ponim is misused and made an object of ridicule and Chilul Hashem!
Speak about Moshiach…encourage the subject…promote acts of kindness and Geulah…on your OWN houses and cars. Otherwise it is a מצוה הבאה מעבירה אינה מצוה, and simply Neged Ratzon Hashem.
THE MAGID OF MESRTCH PUT CHASSIDUS EVREY WHERE SO ONE SIMPLE YID COULD LEARN
And learn some chassidus, maybe that will take the misnagid attitude out of you
For those calling out tzfatim, you obviously know nothing of the Israeli bochurim today. Tzfatim are no longer the most intense “muktzanim” so let’s move on from our childish assumptions of who “ruins the shchuna” and just go back to teaching our own kids how to behave in a way we believe is respectable and appropriate. (btw I don’t care the bikes were “vandalized” not a fan on the rebbes face being put on there since anyone can take it off and throw it on the floor or do g-d knows what with it but please, there are worse crimes… Read more »
I can’t believe this is even a conversation.
This is not nachas ruach to the Rebbe’. It’s a shameful immature criminal act. Leaving stickers on the wall is brazen. Complete yetzer harah dressed in “hiskashrus”. Very sad. There is no pride in petty crime.
THE MEZRITCHER MAGID PUT CHASSIDUS EVRY WHERE SO ONE SIMPLE YID COULD LEARN
What about the stickers on all the walk and don’t walk signs throughout the city?
Go through Manhattan and see the amount of vandalism done to the rebbes face. It’s painful.
THE MAGID OF MESRETCH PUT CHASSIDUS EVRY WHERE IT EVEN GOT TO THE GARBAGE AND HE SILL KEPT ON SPREADING
youre comparing the rebbes heilige face to a peice of chassidus. that was one peice of chassidus. this is the rebbes holy facd being defaced thousands of times a day. The rebbe didnt even let his image used on covers of magazines bar some scare occasions
such a chillul Hashem. this is so embarrassing. and the poor rebbe being used in such a negative shameful way is a new low, even for crown heights
יחי אדונינו מרנו ורבינו מלך המשׁיח לעולם ועד
Before the Rebbe became Rebbe, the Rebbe put up himself stickers in the subway that’s that stated לאלתר לתשובה לאלתר לגאולה
See from what detail:
נדפס ספר “צדיק למלך” חלק ד’ עמ’ 152.
The stickers only said לאלתר לגאולה, not לתשובה
If you get snap the citibikes are $5/month
I might rent one myself just to ride around with the new sticker.
They were informed about these bikes and allowed them to come in take note there aren’t any in Williamsburg or boro park. Ideally they could be put on the service lanes but our representative in community board number 9 just likes phot ops
For the record there are in Williamsburg and Boro park
ColLive never shys away from publishing whatever the news is. Good, bad, and ugly. Thank you for staying real and honest.
Fact check: false
What a hero, you think they will respect the rebbes’s picture and put it in Shamis when they scrape it off? Besides for the massive Chillul that was done on top of that! We need to get rid of this terrorist activity. Until now it was localized in 770/CH now they’re taking it outside and thinking all of us down with them. What an Abusha ViCherba to the Rebbe’s cavod
People getting stabbed and gunned down in Israel and you call this terrorist activity??
The fact there’s a conversation here is upsetting.
Lunatics all over crown heights. 770 is a jungle. And there’s pressure, blackmail and politics and gaava beyond control. Sorry state of affairs leads to meshugoyim doing what they want
I wonder if people commenting are from CH. And those who are, just hand waving. Everyone seems ok with 17 year olds running 770, how interesting that is indeed.
What a dumb title for an article. Even more bothersome are the comments posted. When did we become such cynical negative nancies?? The same people I’m sure would be more than thrilled if they saw that joe biden ‘I did that’ sticker at the pump, or any other pro trump ‘vandalism’ – but G-d forbid a Moshiach sticker…I’d put money down that 90% of said commentors have an issue with Moshiach paraphernalia in general, the stickers, flags, cards, flyers. I’m a ‘post 1994’ baby, I never saw the Rebbe with my eyes – yet the message seems clear, bring moshiach… Read more »
We don’t bring Moshiach by stealing or vandalizing. We don’t bring Moshiach by antagonizing and giving people a bad association with the Rebbe. We bring Moshiach by doing what the Rebbe wanted us to do..28 nisan coming soon
ומרדכי לא יכרע ולא ישתחווה
Let me play you a sad song on the world’s smallest violin
At least it’s for the public use
better take the space on Kingston Ave than all the 20 Mitzva tanks.
It should be whomever donate a tank should also pay for parking spot. Enough is enough
the mitzvah tank is more important to the ch LUBAVITCH community than any amount of parking
If you put them outside 770 you are asking for trouble
This is an absolute disgrace. These bikes are used daily by the community at large. Crown heights does not belong to Lubavitch and many many other people live here who use these bikes daily. And putting those stickers on these bikes isn’t spreading the “message of moshiach “, people are seeing this and hate us for damaging others property. This also goes for all the stickers on every traffic sign through your New York. It’s a disgrace and most definitely adds to the anti-semitism we are all feeling these days. Disgusting.
That itself is an even bigger problem…
Trust me, if this was a MAGA sticker or something similar, no one would bat an eye. But since it’s a Moshiach sticker and doesn’t fit with some people’s agenda, all of a sudden it’s a catastrophe.
Move on people. There’s other things to worry about in life.
Not surprised that the pro vandalism side is coming from democrats
I’m not sure that Who Cares is a democrat (I think liberal people would actually be more upset by Moshiach stickers).
He was just making a point that people don’t mind stickers if they represent something that they koch in.
Thank you to colive news for actually for once posting a real piece of news and not just biased propaganda to make chabad look good
how else to publicize Moshiach!
yechi hamelech!
Baruch Hashem! They did a public service! Can they tackle the ads above the subway next???? Those ads are always so horrible and not tznius and do not belong in Crown Heights. And who asked the city to take up hundreds of parking spots when they could have just as easily put them on the sidewalks/parkway? This has only created more stress and chaos for NYC drivers.
Can someone please explain why it seems every Jew in CH is frustrated by these new citi bikes? Please don’t say because of parking
Parking.
I’m sorry but go right now to Kingston and Carroll Street and every single bike over there has different stickers, but when comes to Moshiach it’s called vandalize??
To vandalize with random stickers is one thing. But to vandaliz with the rebbes face is something completely different and wich would cause alot of attention.
There’s a new rack near my house that is seldom being used — it’s almost always filled wybikes going unused. It blocks 3 potential parking places on the street.
Yet the sidewalk there is very wide. There is no reason this bicycle rack could not have been installed on the very wide sidewalk there, instead of the street..
PLUS — Citibike riders seldom wear helmets — double stupidity!
I cannot believe we as a community have stooped this low. The audacity of this bochur is out of this world. We must hunt him down and make sure he is never entered into the Shidduch system.
This act represents the terrible Chinuch we have going in our community.
Lubavitch, we can do better! We must make the Rebbe proud!
( Although honestly I must say, this prank is a little bit humorous.)
There is so much negativity in the world and this is spreading something positive and holy- לקבל פני משיח צדקינו! Read the sichos of the later years, this is our Avodah! The Rebbe’s face is so holy and special, let people drive around seeing it! I personally know people who were mekareved through seeing the Rebbe pictures on the traffic lights in Manhattan. We have no idea what amazing things this can accomplish!
It was me! All you guys calm down it was just a few stickers!
wether or not this is the rebbes rotzan is maybe an argumant but to bash this is definitley wrong
With all the crime, drugs and problems out there…
If that’s how this guy is letting out his energy…. it’s all good 👍
All he wants to do is to spread moshiach!
And for the Rebbes picture… it will make people’s day.
He didn’t vandalize anything…
He did a neat job!
And just to remind all the critics, this past shabbos we read…
הוי דן את על האדם לכף זכות
This is filled with absolute lies! Who vandalized anything just because a group of people don’t like it it doesn’t mean it’s called vandalized
while I may actually agree with the sentiments that FACT is this is vandalism pure and simple
lol, me and my chaveirim had fun 🙂
Yechi!
if you care about ”dina dimalchusa…” even then we are dealing with a much worse avera here lashon hara is midoraisa rambam saya ”no part whatsoever in the world to come ”