Fight For Your Right To Write

Graffiti writers earn further artistic legitimacy by stalking councilmember:

Anti-graffiti hard-liner Peter Vallone Jr. went to police yesterday after a Web site urged readers to show up at the city councilman’s home to protest the possibility that a notorious tagger faces prison time.

“If anybody wants to do any peaceful renovations demonstrations, we suggest they travel to the belly of the beast,” read a message on the Web site animalnewyork.com.

The site listed the address of Vallone’s new home in Astoria, which Vallone said his office provided after a caller threatened to publish several of his old addresses.

Although the message urged “peaceful demonstrations,” Vallone said he was troubled enough to call the police by the reference to “renovations,” as well as by the fact he’ll be home with his two young daughters.

“This is the latest in a long line of threats against me by these punks,” said Vallone, citing profanity-laced graffiti directed at him personally and late-night calls to his home. “This is a new level, because it’s my home and I’m a dad.”