It’s become a weekly event for Lukasz Ruszczyk: Sanitation workers visit him on the sidewalk beneath the train tracks that mark the Ridgewood-Glendale border. A Department of Homeless Services employee encourages Ruszczyk to move into a city homeless shelter and looks on as the Sanitation crew tosses his stuff into a garbage truck.
Ruszczyk declines the recommendation to leave, and the laborers come back a few days later. They have visited three times in March, according to notices left by outreach workers informing Ruszczyk of the pending sweeps.
Ruszczyk, 38, says they can keep coming. He has no intention of leaving unless it means securing a permanent and private home.
“I went to a shelter. I was robbed several times,” he told the Eagle Tuesday, minutes after the latest sweep. “I’d rather freeze than go back.”
Lukasz Ruszczyk, who was living on the streets of Ridgewood, succumbed to his injuries at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center nearly five days after he was assaulted by another homeless man, police said.
Ruszczyk was found intoxicated and beaten, laying on the sidewalk by a bus stop at Forest Avenue and Putnam Avenue on Friday, April 30 at 3 a.m. A witness called 911 and an ambulance rushed him to Wyckoff Heights, police said.
Doctors discovered that Ruszczyk had bruising about his torso and had suffered a severe brain injury — signs of an apparent assault. Hospital officials called officers from the 104th Precinct to investigate.
Police later learned that a woman had called 911 just before 6 p.m. on Thursday to report a group of homeless men fighting at the same location where Ruszczyk was found hours later.
Officers arrested 35-year-old Piotr Wilk, who is also homeless, on murder charges.
And now a word from the original Crapper:
So this Ridgewood homeless guy refused to go to a shelter because they are too dangerous yet the RTU calls people racist for opposing these same shelters and fought for him to remain on the street where he was killed. You can't make this up.
What's your opinion? We like to know-JQ LLC (channeling the old WPIX editorial guy)
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So let me get this straight...
The shelters are too dangerous for homeless people to want to live in them, but people should shut the hell up, be ok with billions in tax dollars being spent to run them and accept shelters in their communities or risk being called racist.
Meanwhile DSA and affiliated groups scream that the homeless should be allowed to live on the street undisturbed so they can kill each other.
Yeah, neither of these is the right solution. Many of the street homeless do not have homes because their alcoholism, drug abuse and/or mental illness make them impossible to live with. They need mandatory inpatient rehab and possibly forced medication, yet we as a society are not down with this. It's the sad reality that no one wants to admit while the govt pisses away tax dollars to connected non-profits.
What they need are work camps - planting crops for the public and feeding themselves or providing money for their upkeep through sales of their produce.
These are able-bodied people - even those mentally ill can be given something or allowed to spend out their lives not harming others or themselves in secure lockdowns.
Stop endangering the public with these people on the street and stop wasting tax payer's hard-earned money to employ the underclass to go through the motions of trying to help the helpless.
Insanity is defined as doing the same mistake over and over again.
Shelters aren't safe. Living in the streets isn't safe. What's left?
As for the commentator asking about farming - why can't the City buy up some large plot of land upstate, build a nice large building where people can have their own rooms and some measure of safety and privacy, and bring the homeless up there where they can live in much nicer surrounding than the streets of the City?
We need Homeless Island. Find an island. Stack it with supplies, georgi vodka and lots of heroin. They can continue on with their way of life without being disturbed. It’s a win win for everyone.
>>>We need Homeless Island<<<
There are 2 Islands sitting doing NOTHING available, North and South brother Island and each has at least one huge brick 3 or more story building that can be rehabbed. I been in there, with a boat just before slack tide and get out with in an hour.
One is partitioned with a wall.
Most the small wood buildings are shot but the large old brick and concrete block asylums are huge! Good floors and staircases.
Disease, nut job isolation and drug rehab jail work is what those islands were for, 1/2 mile from Astoria. They cant escape also, the Hells gate currents will drown them !!!
-Joe
Not only does this city have domestic bums, but we are now importing them from other states and other countries. When will this insanity end. Theses are mentally ill,alcoholics and drug addicts that do not want help. They are only worried where there next fix or bottle is coming from. Homeless shelters will not solve the problem but forced detox and mental programs where they are required to take their medication. We need civil commitment for these programs to work.
We had Welfare Island but now it's developed for housing.
Just focus on your family, friends, and appreciate all that life offers. Life is short
"Police later learned that a woman had called 911 just before 6 p.m. on Thursday to report a group of homeless men fighting at the same location where Ruszczyk was found hours later."
Yep, call 911 and the cops find the body hours later. May as well call 1-800 EAT-SHIT as call 911. Over worked officers busy staring at their phones or sitting on their fat asses in their oversized cars.
Don't de-fund the cops. Fire them all, and scrap their union. Build again from scratch.
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