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The unhinged ex-CUNY professor who savagely held a machete to the neck of a Post reporter went on a rambling tirade “This is not my first encounter with the tabloid, but a continuation of a targeted attack, which has everything to do with the fascist seizure of life that is all our reality now, but for Black, Indigenous, and colonized people globally has always been present, albeit at simmering temperatures,” the 48-year-old wrote.
Shellyne Rodriguez — the unhinged ex-CUNY professor who savagely held a machete to a Post reporter’s neck in 2023 — went on a rambling tirade after the newspaper called her out on the front page last week for her $407,000 taxpayer-funded monument monstrosity in The Bronx.In her column, titled “Why My Public Art Drives the Right Nuts,” she claims her media “crisis was not born yesterday, and since its inception, my permanent public artwork has kept the score,” referring to her 23-foot-tall brick, steel and terracotta Marxist monstrosity called “Phoenix Ladder: Monument to the People of the Bronx.” US, Israel launch 'Operation Epic Fury' attack on Iran after regime refused to scrap nuclear program — Trump vows to eliminate threatsViolent ex-con squatting in posh NYC building threatens to kill neighbors, stores gas outside apartment It was unveiled in November along Grand Concourse and Morris Avenue — a little more than two years after she program — which sets aside 1% of the budget for city-funded construction projects for new artwork — as part of a $62.5 million reconstruction of the Grand Concourse.The polarizing piece is adorned with images of the phoenix, a mythological symbol of rebirth; a series of piercing eyes; four clenched fists signifying black power/socialist solidarity, and the home-borough letters “B” and “X.” On top of the structure is an ascending black ladder without an end. It is supposed to be testament to the borough’s resiliency after the arson spree during the tumultuous 1970s. However, many neighborhood residents ripped it as an eyesore, including Frankie Santiago, who told The Post last week, “It looks like a piece of junk.” In the column, Rodriguez claims she became a “target” of “right-wing media” only after making headlines as a then-Hunter College adjunct art professor in May 2023 for She failed to mention she menaced Fenton, who was simply doing his job and knocking on her Bronx apartment door to ask about the incident. She also bizarrely claimed “White Christian supremacy is on the fascist march and carrying out a race cleansing campaign” and that “despite these obstacles” she was somehow able to complete Phoenix Ladder in November – seven years after being commissioned. “She is an homage to the people of the Bronx, a lighthouse for our collective futures, and our witness.” she wrote. “It’s no surprise that these reactionary forces are appalled by it. They understand that this monument is built on their ruins.” The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, which oversees the program, has refused to comment about Rodriguez’s outrageous, headline-making past or whether it considered pulling her budget after she threatened to “chop” up a reporter. The nutty professor was immediately fired by Hunter after the attack. In February 2024, she was axed from another teaching gig at Cooper Union for anti-Israel screeds. Her website doesn’t highlight any current projects.US, Israel launch 'Operation Epic Fury' attack on Iran after regime refused to scrap nuclear program -- Trump vows to eliminate threatsUS, Israel carry out Operation Epic Fury in Iran targeting supreme leader, president — Saudi Arabia will aid Trump's attackSydney Sweeney’s spray tan artist calls this 10-minute self-tanner ‘really game-changing’Gina Gershon reveals why she didn’t want to work with Prince — and how she talked her way out of one shockingly risqué ‘Showgirls’ sceneShellyne Rodriguez -- the unhinged ex-CUNY professor who savagely held a machete to a Post reporter's neck in 2023 -- went on a rambling tirade after the newspaper called her out on the front page last week for her $407,000 taxpayer-funded monument monstrosity in The Bronx.
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