CBS New York
The rough conditions inside a Queens congregate men's shelter with about 180 residents have sparked a city investigation.
It comes after a 27-year-old man experiencing homelessness became a whistleblower, sharing photos, videos and his personal ordeal exclusively with CBS2's Dave Carlin.
"I never saw myself in a position like this, ever a day in my life, no," said the man, who wished to remain anonymous.
He moved to New York from Texas a year ago, landed a job in hospitality working fancy events, but the very opposite of that is where he's been sleeping.
"I make about $27 an hour with that company alone," the man said.
"And it's still too hard to find a place?" Carlin asked
"Yep," the man said.
So, he is experiencing homelessness, surrounded by apparent squalor, drug use and violence inside Glendale's Cooper Rapid Rehousing Center with a population of more than 180 men.
He started taking videos and photos of what goes on inside after being harassed and attacked.
"I do identify as queer," the man said. "I was assaulted multiple times. The police came out, they said it wasn't really their issue, it's something that has to be dealt with internally."
He says he can confirm what many neighbors are claiming about crime spilling out of the shelter and into the community.
"A lot of drug dealing happening around the area, people doing sexual activity over by the school right behind the shelter, and I've seen this all first hand," the man said. "I did my due diligence in finding my local city councilman and I reached out to him."
On Wednesday, Councilman Robert Holden made sure the young man was reassigned elsewhere to a hotel room.
"He's talented. We want to help him. He did a service to everyone in New York City, showing the conditions of the shelters," Holden said. "Get him an apartment, that's my goal, to get him an apartment."
"I know that something good will end up coming out of this," the man said.
Something good, according to Holden, is the city shutting down the Cooper Center.
"The mayor is looking at it. So is [New York City Department of Homeless Services] Commissioner [Gary] Jenkins," Holden said.
"This is supposed to be a working men's shelter, but time and time again, we have people that have severe mental illness ... that really don't fit with what the shelter was for," Glendale resident Dawn Scala said.
Holden favors facilities with smaller groups of residents so their needs can be handled more effectively.
"It's a de Blasio leftover. We need to change it ... I don't believe that we should put 200 men in one location," Holden said.
22 comments:
Is this where the QAnon creep hangs out?
Trends like this need to keep up everywhere in the western world.
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No fear of reprisal, chaos rules. No arrests, further chaos.
The Amish are such a violent and lawless people. Why can't they just stay in Lancaster, work their farms, ride around in their little horse-drawn buggies, attend church services, and leave the rest of us alone!
VOTE REPUBLICAN ....so people like this actually get arrested.
This is why we can’t have nice things….
Ban abortion and this type of behavior will grow exponentially
Indeed, most homeless are drug abusing criminals, some just out of a long stint in prison. Those homeless who are down on their luck usually do their best to get our fast, once they get their documents in order, apply for housing voucher, training and eventually employment. But the long term homeless have been brain damaged by drug use and will never be useful. Most crime in this city is related to drugs, they want money for drugs, they fight over drugs. If you want to kill someone, take some drugs, and you will get the nerve to do it. And yes, the white homeless are more likely on alcohol or oxycodone. But seriously, this is no time to be legalizing marijuana (known to cause schizophrenia) and ketamine and much more. We need to bring back prohibition and be like Singapore in executing druggies as they are so brain damaged they will never be useful to society. The Greatest Generation, including great civil rights leaders, grew up under Prohibition. If legal booze gave us Kennedy, legal casinos gave us Trump, who will legal drugs and prostitution produce?
There have always been homeless shelters. Remember the 1970s disco song YMCA? Even in Trumpy Whitestone, there was the Fiedeldmann seamen boarding house where sailors lived until their next ship came in. (Diagonally across the street from the current library.) Many organizations now subcontracting shelters to the city started off in the bowery as private institutions. But all homeless start by spending a night at the Bellvue shelter, a former assylum. So the question is begged, are we better off with public funding of private shelters, or should the funding return to being private?
Their drugs br too much. They now got them little glass tubes look like cigrettes they light up and smoke like cigrettes. We can't smoke cigrettes no more, but thems do all that.
vote Zeldin
We must order more Best Buy gift cards or tickets to a Met game.
Stories like this are more the reason people are moving to Florida.
"You will live to see horrors beyond your imagination" - Nikola Tesla
Tim Pool said...
Democrats PROTECTING Criminals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u33WYK6GmY&ab_channel=Timcast
God endowed them with a brain, but they destroyed it. Most drugs trigger or cause schizophrenia. Alcohol causes Korzakov dementia. If they destroyed their own brains, why do we have to pay?
@“ Democrats PROTECTING Criminals”
The Putinists have no problem protecting criminals, traitors and cop killers when it suits their agenda.
@“ Stories like this are more the reason people are moving to Florida.”
Just remind them to bring a canoe and a life jacket.
@Is this where the QAnon creep hangs out?
How do you talk like this about your childhood home, TA C-Anon creep?
Most of the QAnon are also tridentine fatimists
Shelter clients ask social workers to replace brand new benefits card because
they gave it to drug dealer.
Nearly all formerly illegal drugs cause schizophrenia, esp marijuana and ketamine, alcoholism
causes Korzakov dementia, steroids cause mania and depression, football injuries lead to dementia. They were born with good brains but destroyed them, maybe they do need negative social credits to donate organs.
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