New York ( CNN ) -- A graffiti vandal hit the home owned by Spike Lee 's father and a neighboring home in Brooklyn Friday -- days after the filmmaker 's curse-filled rant against the gentrification enveloping his old neighborhood . The glass was shattered on the front door of the neighbor 's home on Washington Park in the Fort Greene section , and `` Do the Right Thing , '' the title of Lee 's controversial 1989 film about racial tension in Brooklyn , was spray-painted on the wall along with the Circle-A , the symbol for anarchy . Three words -- `` Do the Right '' -- were scrawled on stairs leading to jazz artist Bill Lee 's brownstone next door . A police spokesman said the home was spray-painted early Friday . The act of vandalism is being investigated . Dianne Mackenzie , who has lived in the neighborhood for 17 years , said she discovered the vandalism on her Washington Park home Friday morning . She believes the damage is connected to Spike Lee 's now-infamous anti-gentrification rant during an African-American History Month lecture on Tuesday . `` All I know is that he made a lot of comments that went viral , the next day my house is vandalized , '' Mackenzie told CNN . `` There is probably some kind of connection in the mind of whoever did this ... There is no reasonable reason for it . If this person has got something to say , fine say it . Do n't damage my property . '' Arnold Lee , who lives with his father , defended his half-brother 's right to rant about gentrification but took issue with Spike Lee 's reference to the family 's Fort Greene home . `` Say what you want but leave the personal stuff out of it , '' he told CNN Friday . `` The moment you start going , 'Well , I live here , ' and he does n't live here . You know he lives in Manhattan so ... this is my dad 's house , and it 's kind of personal . '' He added , `` Leave us out of it . Because I feel bad ... my neighbor , she is a good friend . In his rant , in which Lee mentioned that he once lived at 165 Washington Park , Lee also said his father , `` a great jazz musician , '' bought the brownstone 46 years ago . `` And the mother****** ' people moved in last year and called the cops on my father , '' Lee said . He 's not â€ ” he does n't even play electric bass . It 's acoustic . We bought the mother****** ' house in 1968 , and now you call the cops ? In 2013 ? '' According to a New York Times article , police have received 17 noise complaints . The Times said a woman who lived next door had called most . Arnold Lee does n't believe the vandalism was connected to the noise complaints . `` If it came from what he said , then it came from that , '' he said `` But there has n't been a noise complaint in months . '' Mackenzie , a retired computer programmer , said she was not behind the noise complaints . `` They are professional musicians next door , '' she said . `` They practice . They jam and their music is very good . I never had problems with the noise at all . And I was quoted in the paper saying that , and I never brought complaints . Maybe this has something to do with that . If it does , they got the wrong house . '' Mackenzie , a retired computer programmer , said she is not concerned for her safety . `` We do n't have this kind of thing happening in this neighborhood , '' she said . `` And that is upsetting in a way ... I do n't think it 's necessarily going to happen again . '' Mackenzie said Fort Greene has always been vibrant and diverse , with many longtime home owners . `` It 's always been a very mixed neighborhood , racially , culturally , socially , '' she said . `` It 's retained that identity . It 's also been a neighborhood that attracts a lot of people from the arts . And it still does . I do n't think that the flavor of the neighborhood has changed . The people in it have changed , and where they come from maybe . A lot of people from Europe , people from Africa , we have people from all over in Fort Greene . '' In his speech Tuesday at Brooklyn 's Pratt Institute , Lee vented his feelings about newcomers now inhabiting once-blighted parts of America 's most populous city . `` And why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in the South Bronx , in Harlem , in Bed Stuy , in Crown Heights for the facilities to get better ? The garbage was n't picked up every mother******* day when I was living in 165 Washington Park . ... The police were n't around . When you see white mothers pushing their babies in strollers , three o'clock in the morning on 125th Street , that must tell you something . '' On Wednesday , Lee told `` Anderson Cooper 360 '' that he 's not against new people moving into areas that were once predominantly poor and predominantly African-American . `` My problem is that when you move into a neighborhood , have some respect for the history , for the culture , '' Lee said . Not just Spike Lee 's Brooklyn . CNN 's Rande Iaboni contributed to this report .
Broken glass , spray - paint , Spike Lee 's father 's house and a neighbor 's house . Spike Lee ranted about New York City and hipsters . The neighbor whose home was vandalized thinks it 's connected to Lee 's rant .