Tuesday, August 9, 2016

The man behind deBlasio's Maspeth shelter plan

Fauxgressive Lincoln Restler
This is Lincoln Restler. He basically is a "progressive" Democrat who wanted to be a council member. He decided against running in a primary in north Brooklyn, and instead helped run de Blasio's campaign and then took a "Senior Adviser" job with the administration. (Surprise, surprise.)

Below is a snapshot of campaign contributions to his account when he was running for Democratic District Leader. One fellow sure donated a shitload of money. Interestingly, as an employee of a small not-for-profit, he is not a very highly compensated individual and lives on a block between 2 homeless shelters. Would he really have more than $11,000 to blow on a low level district leader race?
The other highlighted name is Anna Smagacz. She works for Broadway Stages in accounts receivable. She made a rather large donation to de Blasio, $4,995, as well as this large one to Restler. She sure has a lot of money to spend on campaign donations. I truly applaud her interest in Brooklyn politics. Especially since she lives in New Jersey. She is also the managing agent for a number of John Ciafone's dumps.

I think our pal Preet should be taking a look at this stuff.

Anyway, what did Mr. Restler do to one of the neighborhoods that he wished to represent? He dumped a huge "couples shelter" there - that's what's proposed for YOU, Maspeth - which has been run poorly, and which the city has done nothing about. There are a litany of complaints coming from Greenpoint, and having walked around the area of this shelter, I can attest to the fact that it is bringing the neighborhood down tremendously. There are derelicts walking around screaming, cursing, fighting and pissing in the street - and those are just the women!

Get a load of this:
Two brutal attacks have blighted the nearby blocks since the new shelter arrived — someone fatally stabbed a man on Dupont Street near Manhattan Avenue in December, and another brute beat a local artist in front of the Clay facility in July.

Locals say the city and the site’s operators have made no attempts to curb bad behavior, allowing tenants go out for long smoke breaks after their 10 pm curfew without accountability.

But facility director Riquelma Moreno said she can’t lock up her tenants like prisoners, and claimed she can’t gauge how long a smoke break should be because she has never smoked.

The Clay Street shelter is just a block away from another refuge at 400 McGuiness Blvd. and neighbors claim the space between the two facilities has become a seedy hangout for unsavory characters — particularly 96 Clay St., where neighbors said they saw people smoking crack, and the deli next door.

Police have been just as unhelpful, locals said. One woman said that when one man who loiters around the deli threw cookies at her and yelled, “Die, b----, die!” the local precinct acted like she was the wacko.

“I called the 94 Precinct and they treated me like I was a nutcase,” she said, adding that the ruffians had also yelled violent sexual threats at her. “I am not a nutcase.”
In 2014, after deBlasio banned the opening of shelters due to community opposition and instead decided to book hotel rooms for the homeless, Lincoln Restler done fucked up big time:
De Blasio sent senior policy adviser Lincoln Restler to work with DHS on the hotel program, but Restler ignored senior staffers’ fears that the hotels could endanger homeless residents, the DHS source said.
As a result, there was a bloodbath.

You'd think de Blasio would have canned him by now, but since he's a loyal progressive - or rather, FAUXGRESSIVE - and does what he's told, that hasn't happened. If this is what Senior Advisers do, I'd hate to see what the Junior ones are responsible for.

Watch out, Maspeth, this guy will now be bringing his shitty brand of clueless neoliberalism to you in spades.

27 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fauxgressive. I like it. I'm sick of these "liberal" Brooklyn and Manhattan people dumping shit in Queens.

Anonymous said...

Ugly looking twerp.

Anonymous said...

And screw those bleeding heart liberals who scream racism when a community does not want a shelter in their community.
These shelters are nothing but hotbeds for crime. The evidence is overwhelming ! THEY BRING NOTHING BUT TROUBLE.

JQ LLC said...

Hipshit geek. This human failure couldn't persuade people to vote for him so he sells out and the establishment hacks remain in office, Then he joins the most corrupt mayoral administration in a over a century. It's too kind to call this bag of dead puppy dicks a man.


The homeless crisis can be alleviated just a little bit if all these predatory developers would just stop thinking about obese profits and be a tiny bit altruistic and build row houses or modest brick apt. buildings. This may be a cliche' sounding analogy, there should be a modern day Bedford Falls than these mass Pottervilles. But even Potter wouldn't open homeless shelters near his hotels and casinos.

But the allure of campaign cash was just too overwhelming for even caring folks like Mayor Big Slow and this four-eyed fuck twerp. These hacks had no intention of improving the city or even society at large.

These wastes of sperm is what you get when you don't vote and don't have aggressive journalism. I dread what the next leader and his/her appointees are going to be, probably extreme conservative. Or maybe fauxservative.

(sarc) said...

"But that is not what the enlightened professors taught me when I was studying urban planning..."

I do not understand why this is not working...

I wish I could ask Karl Marx, if he were still alive he would know how to fix this.

I guess I will go home and read his Communist Manifesto again...

Anonymous said...

I'll bet he got beat up a lot when he was a kid at school...

Anonymous said...

What a geeky Lookin' nerd. NYC government is full of 'em.
Beat up? They probably gave him repeated wedgies in the schoolyard.

JQ LLC said...

It looks like he doesn't know how to stand up straight in that pic. Even a ten month old baby has better posture.

this guy and the constituency that makes up the hipshit vote, these are the ones this city and Rebny aka the gentrification industrial complex are sacrificing the middle class and working poor to please.

Anonymous said...

I'm pretty sure this guy is the love child of Al Franken and Melissa Mark-Viverito. God help us!

Anonymous said...

How do sociopaths like this guy sleep at night?

Anonymous said...

guy looks like a rat

Joe Moretti said...

Anonymous said...

And screw those bleeding heart liberals who scream racism when a community does not want a shelter in their community.

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BUT those same bleeding heart liberals don't want this or any other shit (drug rehabs, waste transfer stations, etc) in THEIR COMMUNITIES, it is always dump it elsewhere like in lower economic communities or colors of communities, just as long as they don't have to see or it or deal with it. HYPOCRITES. Funny how liberals who say they are so liberal, yet when it comes to this NOT IN MY AREA.

Anonymous said...

Keep political liberal/conservative discussions out of this. JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY ! It always winds up being about the money. Too bad these people are supposed to be elected officials that serve the citizens of this city .

Anonymous said...

just like all the good hearted people at the Clinton Foundation
Clinton Foundation Cash

LibertyBoyNYC said...

Thursday night, folks. Thursday night.

Anonymous said...

Everything else aside, that guy's glasses are a real crime.

Anonymous said...

Lincoln Restler comes from a family that has made immense wealth (not top 1% but top .0001%) by privatizing the natural gas industry in British Columbia Canada. Talk about back room deals and cronyism, Peter Restler, Lincoln’s father and biggest campaign contributor, seems to be the man behind the curtain of British Columbia’s center right Liberal Party, and those politicians regularly come to NYC to kiss his ring. His father basically engineered something similar to Enron in Canada for his own profit. The article below follows the money and goes where NYC journalists haven’t: http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2011/03/21/SmartMeterRush/

Anonymous said...

Interesting article about old man Restler. Imagine trying to influence a foreign election, but it's OK, he a liberal and has big $.

Anonymous said...

Restler looks like the picture in the dictionary when you look up the word "Douchebag".

The Garbage Man from Maspeth said...

What a disgrace this is....nobody wants this..with a homeless shelter, you get disgusting walk of lives....I now have to worry about my kids hanging out at the park that is down the street.....this is unacceptable and needs to be stopped....have them build this shelter somewhere else....how about a block away from Elizabeth Crowley's house......I think that is a noble idea......oh wait,that proposal was turned down by her and she said "do it in Maspeth".....wow, thanks Liz, "good looking out".....

JQ LLC said...

Everyone in Maspeth should not have to worry about being singled out. Last night on PIX news the lead story was about a hotel, with modern art and hip font on the front of it, was turned into a homeless shelter in WILLIAMSBURGH! So this is when something scandalous involving civic services gets attention (Although with the L shutting down in a few years, its looking like northeast brooklyn is going to lose its hip panache and is now expendable)

The big whopper about this is not only the fact that the only time this gets the lead is that it's happening in goddamn hipshitland Brooklyn, but that it was attended and conducted partly by that trust fund turd Lincoln Restler. Now I don't know about you folks, but I think Crappy has exposed these frauds and now Mayor Big Slow De Faustio suddenly found the need to be transparent and honest with the citizens violated by these surprise implementations.

Of course if these avaricious developers would be a little philanthropic, less diabolical and refrain from evil schemes like surgical reconstructing apts and stop thinking of mass profits, and build normal buildings, maybe something akin to habitats for humanity, maybe the homeless crisis can be alleviated once and for all.

Anonymous said...

Looks like Mrs. Smagacz "manages" 202 Franklin Street, 11222 and 110 Frost Street, 11211. 202 Franklin is not currently registered with HPD. Rather interesting given it is a rent-stabilized building. 110 Frost does appear to have current registration. Both properties probably deserve to be on the Worst Landlord List. Neither of them are. Now I suspect we know why!

Anonymous said...

This is the problem with college kids wanting to make politics into a career. They never step foot in a real fucking job, never deal with real people. All these little fuckers do is go to college, work in the college politics than start planning how they are going to work in a political office for someone after college and they have zero real world experience. These fuckers, if they want homeless shelters, start putting it in their neighborhoods. Once they do that, than i wont bitch about this shit. But these liberal bleeding heart motherfuckers who want to make politics a career need to step into the real world and work with people for twenty years before being allowed to run some political position.

JQ LLC said...

Good point about overreaching college kids. But in this case and with this worm, it's all about enriching himself (and quite possibly his greedy dad) and his fauxgressive peers looking for contracts and advisory jobs, and if he makes any headway in politics, power.

If karma comes into play, little lincoln might become a victim of a random attack by a mentally ill homeless man.





Anonymous said...

This dork needs to be raped by a Rhinoceros.

Anonymous said...

Why did he drop the W from the front of his name? Stands for Wimp, as in wimping out of matches

Anonymous said...

Honestly now....doesn't this look like a cartoon character?
Hmmmm....revenge of the nerds!