On Monday night, a huge swath of North Flushing from College Point Boulevard to Murray Street / 28th to 35th avenues was hit at almost every intersection with these signs. They say "Cash for any Car" with a phone number below.
Help!
- North Flushing Resident
code: E15
boro: 4-Queens
street: 35th Ave
between: College Pt Blvd Murray
request: Illegal Poster Violation Service Request
location: Telephone Pole
sign_description: On Monday night, a huge swath of North Flushing from College Point Boulevard to Murray Street / 28th
sign_number: 516 232-0007
47 comments:
516 232-0007.
So, call the number and when the truck shows up, beat the living sh... er, I mean issue the driver a summons.
The signs were also put high enough to be out of reach. I will try take them down on my block using a old broom stick with a hand scrapper attached.
There are hundreds of these signs all over Queens. Law enforcement needs to investigate what kind of operation this is. Most likely involves drugs with potential ties to terrorist groups overseas.
Quite correct. It is very difficult to remove the signs completely when they use this type of adhesive. In my neighborhood, the law breakers appear to use tar.
But behold - a box cutter with a retractable blade. It can be hand held for the low ones or secured to a long pole for the high ones. Our sharp little friend can slice off the ends of these signs thereby rendering them useless to the criminals who put them up (no complete phone number visible).
If you do it right you can make that sign into a narrow vertical strip which, while not ideal, is certainly a lot less noticeable.
Don't wait, Gentlemen. Start your cutting!
I've seen these signs in bayside while coming off of the highway. Wonder how much they really do pay for your car?
These guys are ridiculous. I see these cash for car signs all over queens and Brooklyn. Something has to be done its out of control.
Let's flood this place with calls all day today. Tell them we saw their ad on queenscrap and wanted to compliment them on their winning the "crap of queens" award for the week.
The assholes who do this call themselves "Guerrilla Marketers" They feel it's their right to advertise anywhere they choose. As far as terrorist connections? That's a stretch. It's more likely the local "Goombah" car wreckers.
THE SIGNS ARE PLASTERED EVERYWHERE. Yet, you put up a sign for a yard sale -- and see how quickly you get a $75.00. It happens all the time.
We have to "get" the Mayor and the Governor to "explain" :
Why is it that a Councilman and a Senator command no "real" respect from the City agencies and their Commissioners.
In particular, I refer to the DOB; the FDNY; and other agencies.
Truth of the matter is that Senator Avella will always listen to his constituents. He will always right letters on our behalf.
Unfortunately, the Senator apparently has NO real means to get the City agencies' Commissioners or figure heads to respond to him adequately.
I know for a fact that the Senator has many times requested to meet with the NYC DOB Commissioner in Queens. He, actually, cannot get an appointment to meet with him to discuss projects that present serious "Quality of Life" issues.
Pathetic state of affairs. Undoubtedly, the City's lawyers will not allow the Commissioner to discuss particular projects.
Huang's projects.
Depending on the height of the poster, it's either a DSNY or a DOT issue. My contact at DSNY tells us that summonses and violations are issued all the time but the offender never shows up and the matter is at that point in the hands of the court.
Legislation and enforcement are needed, as well as public shaming by the media. Where's Greg Mocker?
The most ridiculous thing about this situation is that Sanitation will only answer individual 311 complaints....they will come, remove one sign and leave all the rest.
That practice needs to stop!
Also got this:
Dear New Yorker,
You are receiving this e-mail from The City of New York Department of Sanitation because you recently submitted a request via our web site at http://www.nyc.gov/sanitation for a condition located at
College Pt. Blvd & 35th Ave.
Your log number is 2014WB5258126 Please use this log number in all related correspondence.
* NOTE: DO NOT reply to this email. If you have any questions, please call 1-646-885-3769 between 7am and 4pm Monday through Friday.
Customer Service Unit
Office of Community Affairs
NYC Department of Sanitation
How about we glue Stinky to one of the poles in question?
I called the number up. An Italian scumbag picked up.
Unfortunately, the Senator apparently has NO real means to get the City agencies' Commissioners or figure heads to respond to him adequately.
Why doesn't he ask Virginia Joe if these signs are on HIS block. Fair question as Virginia Joe thinks Joe Liu should be on YOUR block.
What you get when you have lazy, useless and corrupt leaders in your borough.
This shit does not happen in other communities like it does in NYC.
This city allows anything to take place.
They are using cherry pickers to put them up in many cases. So you need a cherry picker to take one down. I don't have one handy. Do you?
So it looks like some outfit that uses a cherry picker in its ordinary business does this as a side job.
I have seen some of them with the phone number painted over. That's not quite as good as removing it, but a start.
I suggest that the city be allowed to terminate phone service to numbers which appear on these signs after the summons are not paid and the signs not removed.
Call the trucks to pick up abandoned cars and other eyesores.
i believe this guy was stealing cars off the street until he got busted a few years ago he went by the A.K.A. the mad hatter and was driving a white flatbed out of brooklyn devoe st it looks like he is back and this is his idea of conducting legit business
this can be settled very easily , sanitation police take an old car park it in a residential , then call the number when they arrive and pick it up get the owners info and place him under arrest and fine him.
Are these the same people who offer you "Cash for Homes?" Those folks are destroying our neighborhoods.
There are hundreds of these signs all over Queens. Law enforcement needs to investigate what kind of operation this is. Most likely involves drugs with potential ties to terrorist groups overseas.
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LMAO what in gods name are you smoking, man? Yes, im sure these signs have direct ties to al-Qaeda
What's so crazy about it? If you can fund terrorism through stolen baby formula then why this is so far fetched?
The guys name is spirou he is a GREEK from Astoria he gets away with it there cuz the politicians only enforce against non Greeks there i wonder why i guess he figures he can get away with it there what a slum Astoria is turned into
I can't condone this but here's a thought:
What if somebody made up their own signs that could be glued on top of the CA$H for CAR$ signs.
These new signs would be a little smaller so that they cover everything BUT the phone number, which would still show at the bottom.
These signs could say things like:
FREE P*SSY
CALL...
or
Into Bestiality?
Give me a ring at...
or
Your Local Pedophile
Can Be Reached At...
I have a hunch THOSE signs would all come down pretty quick.
This is also illegal of course, and so I'd never do such a thing but who knows?
Somebody else might...
Let's see you have a perp that commits a crive and leaves their phone number.
And the city can't figure out how to stop it ?
As GTA said, call the number and arrest anyone that shows up. Impound their truck which will cause them financial pain.
Rinse and repeat.
it's almost impossible to take them down without damaging them unless we can find a solvent.
YOUR COMMENT MAKES NO SENSE. WHY WOULD YOU GIVE A RATS ASS ABOUT DAMAGING THEM ???
It makes perfect sense. If you can't take the entire thing down, then there will be a piece of it left on the pole, which is almost a worse eyesore than having the whole sign up.
I don't get how they can not catch those doing this and the same with the clothing bins. It is not like a single person walks by and puts something on a sidewalk or high on a tree or pole in a second. You need actual big equipment to do this and it takes time, especially one of those big clothing bins.
Makes no sense
How about these politicians who put illegal signs all over the place like councilman john lui its ok for them thats why they dont bust these guys because then they too will be throwing some BIG STONES in those glass houses they live in once again.think about it!
"It makes perfect sense. If you can't take the entire thing down, then there will be a piece of it left on the pole, which is almost a worse eyesore than having the whole sign up."
Disagree with you there Crappo. It's not perfect but it's a lot better. But... I'm sure you'll find a reason why having a sign remnant left on a pole is worse than Hitler. Happy trolls to you!
now if anybody gives a rats azz about this a reasonable solution would be to arrest this guy (if you can get nypd off there lazy AZZ) and then in court his sentence could be community service make him cleanup the highways for 20 days like the rest of our low level criminals the problem is you are definitely going to need a local politician to put pressure on the cops to do something or this forum will probably be as far as it goes
First thing you do is take a Sharpie and cover the last 4 digits of the phone number with black ink - so the sign becomes useless.
Use a pruning tree pole
These guys are based out of New Jersey..they have multiple signs and numbers...I can also tell you one of the numbers that they use is registered to a company named "Go Green auto recycling incorporated"...134-40 58th ave. Flushing ny 11355...they are not even license or insured or bonded in New York State..they Pick up junk vehicles and sell them locally to scrap yards...they don't even pay taxes basically gypsies...the signs are scattered throughout all five boroughs
His name is joe copolla he has been posting signs for years now
His name is joe coppola hes been posting signs with the # 718 357 3328 hes one of the originals .known as " the godfather"of signs.all the other guys are smallfrys !!!!!!compared to him . He lives in queens and all you have to do is google his # .he goes around in a cherry picker all hours of the night .he is also an avid craigslist spammer who will stay up for days at a time living off of black coffee and sheer determination to post 2500 ads before he will stop to sleep .he has been known to stake out a sign location for weeks and has a full con ed truck and uniform he uses for his covert missions.he must be stopped !!! He sells cars out of carvel parking lots and other curbstone style spots . He doesnt psy any taxes on the cars he sells because he will only accept cash and he will give you a receipt for $500 when you paid $3000 wow what a scammer BEWARE !!!! beware!!!BEWARE!!! JOE COPOLLA MUST BE STOPPED!!!! HE IS NO GYPSIE HES A REAL PRO.hes been arrested a few times for his car dealing tactics.hes been at it for iver 30 years.he mostly operates in the northern flushing whitestone and bayside area and will protect his "teritory " wih john gotti like tactics .ive been on this guy for years after he sold my friends nephew a REALLY BAD CAR. Ive got a file on him as thick as a phone book .its only a matter of time copolla .
Well this asshole is now putting his signs all over the Bronx on lamp poles so I say to you that the sanitation supervisor for Bronx 12 has to make a formal complaint to the police department as well as his superiors and get a warrant for this persons arrest he has the power to do that The department of transportation should also have the man arrested because he's defacing the lamp poles which are under the jurisdiction of the department of transportation
Let the NYPD vandal squad do some real work.
This is technically graffiti. When graffiti vandals place stickers around town this is called sticker tagging.
Well, isn't this sign tagging?
Fugghettabout it! This vandal...rubber gun...squad finds it easier to go after kids.
Yes...Koo and Vallone are among the most useless council members around.
But that's your fault for electing them.
Make sure Vallone, in particular, does not get a second term.
Anonymous said...
This guy must be stopped NOW. 516-232-0007. This CRIMINAL has posted thousands of signs in all 5 boro's. Someone I know who has done business with him said his name
is JOHN SANCHEZ who grew up in the Flushing, Fresh Meadows area in Queens.He has been
posting signs for ten years now. He blatantly post's 4 signs at every intersection in
EVERY boro, he is a lunatic.He's arrogant and thinks he will never be caught. He uses 5 differnt phone numbers to disguise himself, any phone number starting with 516 area code that's probably him.No doubt he uses throw away phones to conceal his identity.
He is a junk dealer and has no location. The Dept of Sanitation if they catch this guy would have to pay $75.00 per sign X 50,000 signs . Do have any idea how much money he'll have to pay. DO THE MATH. Set him up and get the tow companies he uses to roll over on him by impounding their trucks and arresting them as part of this SCHEME.
I think if the NYPD wanted to investigate, it's probably easy to triangulate the phone numbers then start building up a database of people and businesses connected to them. The "Intelligence Unit" of the NYPD has experience doing this type of work - as they spent millions on the unconstitutional surveillance of mosques and Muslims in NYC (which yielded nothing). In comparison, this should be a much cheaper and shorter term operation that yields a lot more arrests and results that people will appreciate.
So these Cars For Cash assholes posted 3 signs on the corner of 51st Ave and Poyer St in my neighborhood in Elmhurst - one of them 20 ft up next to the traffic light, another on the traffic light pole, and a third on the red corner FDNY pull station.
Called NYPD to see if they can investigate. After showing up to our residence, here was the amusing conversation:
Cop: Well, just take the signs down.
Me: I can't, it's stuck with industrial strength glue. And I can't reach up 20 ft in the middle of the intersection.
Cop: Well, it's just like a yard sale sign. It's nothing really.
Me: Well, not really because yard sale signs usually go away once the yard sale ends. And yard sale signs aren't posted on traffic lights with industrial glue. And I don't see them on every corner of Queens. Also, these seem to be for a business, not a personal sale.
Cop: Business or personal - it's not illegal.
Me: Are you sure?
Cop: Yes, maybe a summons at worst. Plus, I see Kars for Kids signs are everywhere.
Me: But this isn't Kars for Kids, it's Cars for Cash.
Cop: Oh OK, thought you said Kars for Kids. Still, it's like graffiti. Actually, for graffiti we would arrest the guy. For this, there is no arrest, just a summons.
Me: So what would you do if you caught one of these guys in the act of putting up the signs?
Cop: We'd probably just ask them to take it down. They'd probably do it right away.
Me: OK. Do you think you can investigate the people behind these signs?
Cop: No, we just don't have the resources to do that when there's other things going on.
Me: OK. Even though it's everywhere?
Other Cop: You know you can just cover one of the digits on their phone number.
Me: OK, maybe, but I can't reach up 20 ft on the intersection.
Cop: OK. I just don't understand why these signs bother you. I worry about my mortgage, and my bills, and that's it.
Me: Ok, well would you want these signs posted up in front of your house? Besides, I already took care of my bills, so now I can focus on a neighborhood nuisance.
Cop: That's good.
Me: Ok - is there anything you can do about the fact that my wife called the number and asked the mobster sounding guy about their signs in our neighborhood and they told her to go fuck herself then hung up the phone?
Cop: No.
Cops start to head out.
Me: OK, thanks for doing nothing about all this. It's exactly what I thought you'd do.
Note: Separately, I called 311 to report it, and got a case number C-1-1-1308102441.
it's joe coolla he has a new # 917 500 ....he knows his days are numbered. I'll go get the song off of the pole and post it give me about a half hour
Just got the number off a poll his name is Joe Coppola 917-500-4606 that's his new number the king sign Bandit Joe Coppola he operates out of flushing North and the Bayside area and Fresh Meadows beware
How come you guys have given up ? All this needs is media attention and criminal charges
Call every phone number you see. A live person picks up the phone. Tell them you have a car for them but it doesn't run. Make arrangements to have them pick it up. Give them a fake address. Let them drive all over the city wasting their time chasing fake cars.
The people who post these signs are Brian Mooney and Timothy Mooney. The previous post on this site from Thursday September 11th 2014 is correct
These guys even have a you tube channel.... it's called Nuetral Drop
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