Creedmoor of concern to local citizens
From
CBS 2:
A Queens community says it has grown impatient with some patients at a famed mental health facility near their neighborhood.
They say incident involving patients range from scary to downright gross.
Matt Kruger told CBS2’s Jessica Borg the scenes he captured in a cellphone video are the reason he’s moving out of Glen Oaks.
“No one wants to see someone’s pants down to their ankles, in broad daylight, then going to the bathroom in the middle of the street,” he said.
He showed Borg the video – too graphic for TV – that showed a man doing just that right around the corner from his home.
“It’s inappropriate,” he said. “There’s kids, there’s families.”
Aggressive panhandling is also a growing concern for neighbors of a shopping plaza on Union Turnpike.
12 comments:
Is this a hospital or a country club?
Why do the patient's (inmates) walk around the streets and panhandle?
Who is running this dump?
Could the councilman be any less interested.
I am glad I moved out of Glen Oaks. From wheel thefts to greedy board directors making me pay for windows and robberies. Good riddance.
That thing has been there forever. It should have been closed down a long time ago. Now if they want to keep it up, it should have better security. However, this building has been there for a long time... Didn't you consider that you're in close proximity to a pyscho hospital when you decided to buy your place of residence?
@Anonymous said...
"Didn't you consider that you're in close proximity to a pyscho hospital when you decided to buy your place of residence?"
Didn't you see they are letting them off the hospital grounds and into the streets.
This in my opinion is being done on purpose so it will be closed down and a developer with connections will over-developed the area against the current zoning restrictions.
Isn't Queens Civic Congress big in this part of Queenns? Don't worry, if its important the party bosses will tell them to put it on their agenda.
AFAIK, it's not a hospital for the criminally insane. After all, they built a senior housing facility on the southern part near Hillside Avenue; and they built the Frank Padavan school campus in the NE corner - would anyone have approved those if the facility housed "psychos"? Most hospitals have out-patient clinics, so perhaps those are the ones who are causing problems in the neighborhood. And maybe they hang out in the abandoned house on the corner of Union Tpke and Commonwealth Blvd.
Actually it is a hospital for the criminally insane and just plain insane folks. Most of the facility are inpatients where they are not allowed out (like prison). I've seen the Rikers Island van dropping people off there, so that says something. The problem is the outpatients who I believe live there have privileges to go and come as they please. Some of those characters look very scary and don't belong in the streets, they do drugs outside by the parks, bus stop. They have there own police but not as many to contain these people.
I live nearby. The biggest problems are the people who live at Creedmore and are allowed out during the day. They are dumped out one of the entrances and then loiter at the bus stop, stores, and walk around the residential streets. They are dirty and unkempt. At night they all disappear since they have to be back by a certain time to check-in.
This has not always been the case. When I chose to buy my home, patients would wander the lawns around Creedmore and have supervised trips to local stores. There was a small farm on the grounds that they were supposed to work. Now they are just let out to wander and the guards do not care. It used to be also that the guards on the grounds seemed more official and less like rent-a-cop security guards. I have seen guards at the side entrance (by the day care) watch a man walk off the grounds, take down his pants and urinate on the street. After he came by to panhandle the cars stuck at the red light. The guard did nothing. His day priveleges should have been revoked immediately.
AFAIK, it's not a hospital for the criminally insane. After all, they built a senior housing facility on the southern part near Hillside Avenue; and they built the Frank Padavan school campus in the NE corner - would anyone have approved those if the facility housed "psychos"?
BUT THIS IS QUEENS RUN BY THE "KATZ AND KROWLY KLOWN SHOW" WHOSE JUDGEMENT LEVEL AND GREY MATTER BETWIXT THE EARS HAS ERODED WITH DISUSE SINCE THE PARTY APPARATUS ON OUR NECKS HAS MADE RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP UNNESSARY.
Most hospitals have out-patient clinics, so perhaps those are the ones who are causing problems in the neighborhood. And maybe they hang out in the abandoned house on the corner of Union Tpke and Commonwealth Blvd.
THAT'S CLEAR WITH QUEENS LOGIC. DOVETAILS NICELY WITH THE FIRST STATEMENT.
CAN YOU SEE THIS IN THE OTHER BOROUGHS? NO? WE REST OUR CASE.
It has always been a concern!
Lock up Joe Crowley in a padded cell.
Musician Lou Reed and jazz pianist Bud Powell were treated at Creedmoor. Legendary folksinger Woody Guthrie, who had been institutionalized for years while suffering from Huntington's disease, was transferred to Creedmoor in June 1966 and died there in October 1967.
Post a Comment