A notorious Queens hotel that was the scene of the city’s first shooting homicide on New Year’s morning — and which has long been considered a danger and nuisance by neighbors — has closed.
The Umbrella Hotel in Kew Gardens Friday night had “hotel closed” signs posted at the lobby entrance, informing neighbors and potential customers that it is no longer in business.
The hotel — at Queens Boulevard and 82nd Avenue — is located across from Borough Hall and near the Queens courthouse.
After months of complaints, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday he was moving to shut the hotel after a triple shooting early New Year’s morning left 20-year-old Robert Williams dead and two others injured and hospitalized.
Neighbors filed more than 100 complaints to authorities and local lawmakers, saying the hotel had become a hub for drugs, prostitution and violence.
They also complained the hotel housed illegal clubs set up by partygoers who rented rooms at cheap rates during the pandemic.
A shooting took place at the Umbrella over the summer; the local 102 Pct. had been stationed outside virtually 24/7 for months.
Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and local legislators had joined neighbors in calling for the hotel to be shut down.
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Neighbors filed more than 100 complaints to authorities and local lawmakers, saying the hotel had become a hub for drugs, prostitution and violence.
They also complained the hotel housed illegal clubs set up by partygoers who rented rooms at cheap rates during the pandemic.
This is part of the white supremacist war against Black and Brown people in this country. Area residents are all a bunch of racists who can't stand the site of Black and Brown people having a little fun.
Area residents are all a bunch of racists who can't stand the site of Black and Brown people having a little fun.
By killing each other next door to the Queens DA's office.
Got you. Moron.
So now the definition of "fun" is illegal gambling, prostitution, shooting, and murder. Does Merriam Webster know about this redefinition?
Some people always have to play the race card
Murder is the only way a woke city could have shut the hotel down. The pandemic parties wouldn't have been enough.
The question is...what will it become of the hotel floors now that they are closed? Will they be left for people to squat in and start fires? Or will they be secured and converted to something useful?
The residents of KG knew this would happen and protested it before it was even built.
But here we are. Isn’t our ruling class great?
Why not just convert it to a jail instead of spending millions or billions building one down the block. I'm sure it would make Karen (I want a jail) Koslowitz very happy.
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