Queens Eagle
The bullet holes in the front door were the last straw.
Five Central Queens elected officials have urged Mayor Bill de Blasio to convene various city agencies and address a spike in gun violence and drug sales at the Umbrella Hotel, located across from Queens Borough Hall and the Queens Criminal Courthouse.
“The events we have witnessed over the last several months at this location have crossed the line from quality of life issues into safety concerns for the people we have the privilege of representing,” the elected officials wrote in a letter to City Hall. “Simply put, we need your administration to coordinate a multi-agency response to the problems at this location.”
The hotel has been the scene of two shootings over the past six weeks, prompting U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, State Sen. Leroy Comrie, Assemblymembers Daniel Rosenthal and Andrew Hevesi and Councilmember Karen Koslowitz to send the letter to de Blasio.
The shootings, first reported by the Eagle, took place July 3 and Aug. 9. The victims survived both attacks, but gunfire from the most recent incident punctured the revolving door of the once-quiet hotel.
“The situation is extremely dangerous,” Assemblymember Daniel Rosenthal told the Eagle after a meeting at Queens Borough Hall Aug. 13. Representatives from the NYPD’s 102nd Precinct and Queens Community 9 showed up, but several other agencies blew off the meeting, Rosenthal said.
“There have already been two shootings and the fact that we had a meeting and that most city agencies decided not to show is reckless and unacceptable,” Rosenthal said.
15 comments:
These elected Dems are like, a day late and a dollar short. NYC has basically fired its police force. So who's gonna keep the peace? Oh, I know, the elected officials! Gear up politicians and hit the streets. Losers!
I couldn't be happier for the folks that live in this neighborhood. You keep voting in these same useless politicians. They could give a rats ass about the community. They are only there for what's in it for them. You sheeple think they care about you and me. KEEP VOTING DEMOCRATIC.
I guarantee you all those involved with the shootings have been arrested in the past year and released, because you know, it’s mean to punish people these days. This is the city all y’all voted for. Enjoy!
Dem corrupt central....BORO HALL!
Loosey goosey liberal bribe takers
Aren’t there “luxury” rentals in that place too? What a joke, like said above the morons kept sending Ronald McDonald Kosolwitz to the council. What do you expect to happen.
Boro Hall? You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
"Ronald McDonald Kosolwitz" LOL Good one :-D !
Our courts have always been revolving doors for criminals. Go back into the history of our country, and any part of it, and you will see that the criminal justice system is not that. Always follow the money. As long as criminals keep coming back the judges, prosecutors and public defenders are making money. It's a corrupt system with all corrupt players, but it's the only system we have.
Sending this to two friends that live right by the Courts. I doubt they'll agitate for any change but it couldn't hurt. Koslowitz is a decrepit mummy. She has to go.
9 tanna leaves might reanimate that political KOOZ mummy🤪
Koslowitz does look like Ronald McDonald :o
So people realize, the hotel is right next to the Queens DA's office.
The Criminal Court is right across the street.
Qc Reader said...
Makes me desire the days of David Dinkins again.
'Koslowitz has got to go' LOL as if it's that simple. Once Koslowitz goes, you're getting either A) another useless Democrt machine hack or B) a useless and dangerous asshat from the Democratic Socialists of America. But hey, none of this would be the case if the electorate didn't allow it.
Next to the Queens DAs office... uhh Queens no longer has a DA. We have someone who s never tried a criminal case or stepped foot in a courtroom. Thanks Democrats!
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