Mr. Jankowski said that a case of racist graffiti was so uncommon in Stamford<br />that “no one can remember in the past 20 to 30 years of anything like this.”<br />The conflicts between the couple and the city started in October 2012.<br />Residents have started to complain, and officials in Stamford, a diverse coastal city<br />about 30 miles northeast of New York City, recently directed the couple to remove it.<br />“We offered to remedy the situation, to take care of removing the graffiti.”<br />Andre Cayo, a lawyer representing Ms. Lindsay, 59, a former respiratory therapist now on disability, said he had<br />advised her to keep the racial slur on the garage door as a way to keep pressure on the Police Department.<br />After a hearing last fall, Mr. Cayo said, Ms. Lindsay was cited for more blight<br />— an unstable wooden deck in the backyard and house panels in disrepair.<br />Ms. Lindsay said that since the couple had moved into the house in 1999, several people in the<br />area had repeatedly yelled racial obscenities at him and told them they hurt property values.<br />C.P., who joined the couple at the news conference, said he had been watching for other<br />signs of racism in the city after the election of Mr. Trump and the vandalism.
