Philadelphia real estate agent Ori Feibush woke up Saturday morning to find out that the windows of his OCF Coffee Shop in Point Breeze had been vandalized and the vandal was caught on tape. Feibush believes that the Point Breeze Organizing Committee, a neighborhood group, is responsible. “I’m 100 percent certain it is this group…The idea that it’s not is almost laughable.” Feibush told Philly.com but PBOC organizer Mindy Isser denied any involvement. The vandalism occurred at approximately 6am on Saturday when a man wearing a mask, a gray hooded sweatshirt and gloves threw two large pieces of concrete through the front windows of Feibush’s OCF Coffee House, at the corner of 20th and Federal. The total value of the damage is estimated at $2,000.
Coincidentally (or not) the vandalism occurred on the same day that the PBOC held a march that was in part to protest Feibush and his real estate firm OCF Realty. Point Breeze neighbors and Feibush have been at odds for almost a year now with neighbors objecting to the gentrification of the neighborhood and Feibush’s tactics which the PBOC have called a “profits-before-people model of development.” With tensions running super high between the “developer” and the neighborhood it was only a matter of time before something like this happened.