Friday, July 17, 2020

The homeless shelter warehouse in Glendale is not working out well


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Queens Chronicle

 During last Wednesday’s community advisory board meeting regarding the homeless shelter at 78-16 Cooper Ave., a man knocked on the door of Councilman Bob Holden’s (D-Middle Village) office.

The man, a resident of the shelter, said he was strung out on heroin, according to Daniel Kurzyna, Holden’s chief of staff.

He was previously at a shelter in Brooklyn, where he was provided methadone to fight his addiction.

“He now does drugs, begs on the street, panhandles and harasses residents in the area when they walk past the shelter,” Kurzyna wrote in an email to Amanda Nasner, Queens borough director at the Department of Homeless Services.

Holden blasted the DHS in a statement.

“Placing this shelter in the middle of our community over our objections has done nothing but increase crime, drug use, and calls to the police, while decreasing the quality of life,” he said Monday.

The lawmaker, a longtime critic of the shelter, said DHS Commissioner Steven Banks should be fired and called service provider Westhab “inept” at operating the Glendale site.

“Hundreds of calls to police this year have taken already limited police staff away from the rest of the community,” Holden said. “This shelter is a total disaster for the residents and the surrounding community, as we always knew it would be.”



11 comments:

Anonymous said...

NYC. Love it, or leave it!

Anonymous said...

All strung out on heroin on the outskirts of town. That's what happens when they run out of methadone and cut off your welfare check.

Anonymous said...

QC Reader Said...
Maybe he just wants a loaf of bread !

Anonymous said...

Middle Village and Glendale are being targeted because they are still a good middle class places to raise a family. The Far-Left hates that...

Anonymous said...

Mo said...
"NYC. Love it, or leave it!"
People with the $$$ are already leaving by the thousands.
AOC’s proposed billionaires tax will fuel the exodus of wealthy from New York.
I can't tell if AOC is truly a naive little girl or if she's a diabolical genius.

Deke DaSilva said...

This is the 1970's NYC "grit" that certain types of White Liberals always have fond memories of!

Anonymous said...

Why am I not surprised. Deblasio sweeping the problem out to the outer boroughs and the problem never gets fixed.
Look at Queens Blvd with all the shelters there. The shelters, his policies and the pandemic will have many people sell and move out of here. The signs are already up. So it begins.
AOC wants a tax on billionaires in NY well all that does is cause them to leave and take their business elsewhere and that just might cause more unemployment.

Anonymous said...

All my wonderful friends in Glendale please continue to be good American these problems that are in your neighborhood hopefully will be resolved. I have a few friends in Glendale over the years and I used to go to the senior center over where that Homeless Shelter is I sympathize with your plight and my Glendale friends please hold tight don't give up hope

Anonymous said...

Holden has to run for mayor. He's this city's only hope.

Anonymous said...

Our mayor is a joke. A pandering apparatchik, and a cowardly tax fattened hyena that hides behind his security detail while hamstringing the police. Bring back stocks and pillories and publicly humiliate this huge waste of money and arrogant authority.

Who that me said...

The Mayor should go live there with his shit bag wife whose wasted more money then anybody in office , the 5 boros have gone to shit , you wanna live good and raise a family move far east and north, liberals destroyed the city and will continue to do so because people are too scared to speak up and being labeled as a racist , keep the 5 boros all the animals that come with it , fuck you de blasio and aoc and the rest of the NYC shit bag committee, you should all become victims of violent crimes that you allowed to plague this city , have a nice and pleasant day to all the hard working new Yorkers I love you all and love the city but the city dont love the hard working NYers who help build and keep it safe . .