From
NY YIMBY:
Roslyn, N.Y.-based Bama Associates has filed applications for a two-story, 74-bed co-ed community residential facility at 118-36 Merrick Boulevard, located on the corner of 119th Avenue in St. Albans, Queens. The new building will measure 9,596 square feet. It’s unknown what exactly the facility will be used for, but indications are that it will be some form of shelter, temporary housing, or recovery program.
Funny how just a few years ago, there was an alleged Queens hotel boom but now it's a shelter boom thanks to the poverty pimps at city hall. Who knew that there was so much money to be made off poor people?
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These shelter programs are designed to get homeless out of the tourist corridor of Manhattan.
They are proliferating there, and ruining tourism, NYC's chief source of income after real estate , etc. taxes.
So....dump them in crap locations in the outer boroughs where they will remain unseen to ogling tourists.
We do not want poor smelly people interfering with our Disney like NYC.
We sanitize the appearance of the big apple.
We do not really solve the problem of the homeless, just sweep them under the carpet out of sight.
They are just being proactive.
We must prepare for the more than ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND Syrian refugees that Madam Secretary Hillary Diane Rodham Cilnton has promised to bring here once she is coronated.
Who knows how many more will be added after this weeks negotiations at the United Nations Meetings about refugees here in New York City this week.
Get your bomb, bullet, & stab resistant vests while you can...
What everyone needs to know is the outer boroughs will be the dumping ground for this administration. Any shelters or motels will eventually become homeless shelters. It is a given. This administration promised affordable housing and do we see it?
People are taxes are going up to support this. We the working class of this city. When will people realize this!
We need affordable housing.
They're going in everywhere-- including in far eastern Queens-- Bellerose/Floral Park-- along Jamaica Avenue/Jericho turnpike. The tactic is to permit new hotel construction, then fill them up with homeless. The city is under mandate to do this, and this is the cheapest way. There is no end in site for this.
BUT unlike the people in Maspeth, you will barely hear a peep out of the Jamaica area folks, that is why so much SHIT gets dumped into the Jamaica area. They just don't give a shit about their community (and that includes the corrupt do nothing elected officials and the bogus crooked church leaders.
What I can not understand is how the City can pay up to $3500 per homeless family per month for shelter in a hotel when there are apartments available at that price point.
Why do they pay a hotel owner when they could pay a taxpaying landlord for the same accommodation? At least the money spent for shelter would revert back to the tax rolls.
I would like to know:
1. Are we dealing with a pay for play situation here?
2. Do these hotel owners donate to DeBlasio and/or Scot Stringer's election campaigns?
3. Wouldn't it be a good idea to find out?
4. Who in our government can we entrust to honestly accomplish this investigation?
New York property owners are taxed unmercifully, services are poor, roads and bridges falling down, while the City abdicates more and more of previously provided services to property owners, and taxes continue to climb. We are ENTITLED to know all the facts and why they operate in this manner.
If this is NOT pay for play then let's find out. If it IS pay for play then let's stop it immediately and get these homeless people proper accommodations.
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think about this when you vote in november
44 hotels built in Queens since 2005. Come on people, wake up. Why didn't any red flags go up? Where are our elected representatives ? The developers knew what they were doing and many handshakes most likely occurred . This could turn out to be the biggest scandal in NYC history.
It's not that the people there don't give a shit, they fight it at community board meetings, but Miller does absolutely nothing. Plus the rest the people are working more than one job don't often hear about this crap until after the fact. Middle class in this area are moving out fast and furious knowing what's being dumped on them. The rest are elderly (a large part of the population) and their kids will just sell the properties for the cash.
"What I can not understand is how the City can pay up to $3500 per homeless family per month for shelter in a hotel when there are apartments available at that price point."
Because that doesn't comply with Mayor Big Slow's "affordable housing" plans. Guess what? That's where the affordable housing is! In hotels, for the homeless! Now, the homeless can afford to have a home, and it's free! Wipe your hands clean and smile, job will done. If anyone complains, the mayor can simply point out that thousands are now living in affordable housing, despite the fact it's just back alley deals in sheltering the homeless.
This is becoming more and more of a blow to Queens, and it's not going to stop unless people stand up and let your voices be heard. We need a hard hitting journalist with integrity to break the case wide open on this.
If the idea behind this is to put disaffected people from the community there, then let's be honest, the Southeast Queens sections do have their share of those in need of assistance- this is partially why there may not be huge protests there. If they put such a place in let's say Douglaston, then no way it would be fair to be shipping recovering addicts and whatnot over to communities they had no part of it in the first place; but I agree with everyone on here that deBozo has gone too far in general and will gladly join any anti deBozo protests!
THEY SHOULD BUILD ONE NEXT TO DIBLASIO'S HOME TO SEE HOW HE FEELS ABOUT IT...
The city is counting on the people of Maspeth to help push DeBozo out of office next November. We can do it everybody!
Good, the crack sales will be up in that location.
I'm no fan of the current mayor, but as someone pointed out, the building of hotels in places that make no sense (far reaches of the outer boroughs) has been going on at least since the Bloomberg years. DeBlasio is just continuing the trend, even though he said he would end it.
In addition to the questions that others have raised, we need to know why this type of housing is an option when it's so much more expensive than private housing, and how we can get a mayor who is actually going to stop this practice. Otherwise we're just playing whack-a-mole trying to stop these hotels from turning into shelters.
Another reason for this lack of and basic refusal to provide housing and development for low and middle income people was the continued abuse of 421-a and the various loopholes in the cities laws for our developer overlords to take advantage of. Only enriching themselves. The candidate Trump has pilfered close to a billion dollars with this and who knows how many more billions throughout the last 4 decades since the laws inception have been lost that could have improved the boroughs and made housing equitable to all individual and familial pay scales.
This is a continuation of the Fun Size Mayor's policies though. Especially the upzoning permitting frenzy he went on in his last days, maybe that's why that holiday inn in maspeth is so tall and wide. Mayor Big Slow De Faustio knew precisely what he was inheriting, but all he cares about now is power and glory. And the eradication of the middle class and the regression of the working poor to justify these unworkable programs.
ANON said:
If the idea behind this is to put disaffected people from the community there, then let's be honest, the Southeast Queens sections do have their share of those in need of assistance- this is partially why there may not be huge protests there.
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NOT TRUE. SE Queens has the most shelters of any place in Queens, Jamaica alone has about 20. Many of the people in those shelters are NOT from the area, they come from Brooklyn, Bronx, etc. Just like the drug testing place on Hillside Ave/175th St that was dumped here awhile back. When I go by there, tons of white people from Long Island getting out of LI taxi cabs.
I am not saying that SE Queens is great, it sucks and Jamaica sucks big time, but the majority of people in these shelters are not from the community.
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
If the idea behind this is to put disaffected people from the community there, then let's be honest, the Southeast Queens sections do have their share of those in need of assistance- this is partially why there may not be huge protests there.
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It is exactly WHY that area gets dumped on, because it has disaffected people, low-income, immigrants, etc, BECAUSE those people will not stand up and voice their opinion, even though most of them are not in shelters. Taking advantage of the homeless, taking advantage of the lower-income, taking advantage of community of colors, all the while powers that be made BIG BUCKS for shit they would not have in their neighborhoods. So many LIBERALS are so two face.
Them, too? St Albans was one of the nicest black neighborhoods anywhere.
Yawn!
Can the old repetitive Obama rants.
We all already know that Obama even controls the weather.
LMAO!
Her Mr. Prez, there's a drought in California.
Can you bring them some rain?
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