Co-op board threatens to remove man's flag

NEW YORK, July 21 (UPI) -- A New York man said it's unfair his apartment's co-op board told him to remove an American flag he hung on his door after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Vincent Romano, who works with the Legal Aid Society and has lived in his apartment since 1992, promised to leave the 1-foot magnetic flag on his door until Osama bin Laden was no longer living, The New York Post reported Monday.

"I work for an organization that fights for the rights of other people, and I have a right to declare my own," he told the Post.

Members of his apartment's co-op board said if Romano refuses to remove the flag, they will take it down themselves.

Romano said he started getting hassled about the flag after the co-op put fresh paint on the doors. He said a general letter was sent to tenants warning that hanging items on doors could ruin the paint.