Many Dutch Kills and Queensbridge residents have been calling for assistance in dealing with quality-of-life issues stemming from the local homeless shelters, according to Queens Community Board 1.
Florence Koulouris, the district manager for Community Board 1, told board members at their monthly meeting Feb. 15 that there have been about two thousand 911 calls over the past year from Dutch Kills and Queensbridge residents regarding incidents at the surrounding shelters.
There are several shelters in the Dutch Kills/Queensbridge area–all within close proximity to one another.
“Our local residents have seen remarkable events occurring… and are fearful for their safety, due to the lack of desperately needed services for the [shelter] residents placed in hotels,” Koulouris said.
She said that there have been complaints about public defecation, urination, intimidation, sexual activity, drug use—and that there are video tapes of homeless residents involved in trespassing and theft.
She gave a breakdown of the number of complaints concerning shelter residents in the Dutch Kills/Queensbridge section of Long Island City for the 12-month period through Feb.1, 2022.
Koulouris said that there were 107 911 calls concerning residents of the Quality Inn LIC, located at 30-03 40th Ave.; 219 911 calls pertaining to the residents at the Sleep Inn Hotel at 38-77 13th St.; 1,385 911 calls—leading to 51 arrests—at Pam’s Place, a women’s shelter located at 40-03 29th St., which opened in 2015 and was the former Verve Hotel.
At the Vue Hotel, located at 40-47 22nd St., there were 240 911 calls, leading to two arrests. The data, Koulouris said, was provided by the NYPD 114th Precinct.
Koulouris told board members that the complaints at Pam’s Place have jumped significantly since the DHS removed its “peace officers.” The peace officers, a unit of DHS, provided additional security. The peace officers, however, vacated most shelters more than a year ago due to budget constraints.
George Stamatiades, chair of the Dutch Kills Civic Association, said that residents in the area have been lodging complaints but have gotten nowhere.
“We have been complaining to DHS but it falls on deaf ears,” Stamatiades told the Queens Post.
He said that DHS is just warehousing people at the hotels and not taking care of the medical needs of the residents.
12 comments:
Blame Trump, right ?
What's the racial break-down of the shelter residents? (There's a racial breakdown of everything else these days, no?)
Who is Really in Charge of New York City ?
After a number of high-profile gaffes I don't think Eric is running anything but his wardrobe.
This is an intractable problem. Since the idiot Liberals forced the closing of the looney bins way back when, there's nothing else to do. You really only have three choices: (1) kill them, which no one is going to endorse (2) lock them up or (3) let them live among us. Providing "treatment" is bunk, since 90% of them are effectively untreatable. That's why we used to house them.
Of course, that came with its own abuses and horrors, because we can't do anything right.
At least option (2) removes the societal problem. With (3) everybody suffers.
Send all the Russians back to Russia. That'll free up loads of housing for the homeless.
Boo hoo. I've been vocal for they last 5 years about the public urination and defication by tlc and Uber drivers. Caught Usps postal drivers paying for sex while on the job. Having to sweep up 45 used condoms and spent syringes a week so the neighborhood can safley play in the dead end. Nypd 114 Captain Nunez denying it was his problem and DI Jenkins blindly following his predecessor no matter how much security video uploaded.
My walls remain tagged with graffiti homeless encamp regularly. Cargo vans dumping house waste to pocket the tipping fee at the dump.
Boro president Donovan and council Caban called out. Nothing done. Old families are selling and leaving after generations.
So. Get in the back of the line and wait your turn quietly as we take these streets back under our own decreed martial law.
So, get in the back of the line and wait your turn
https://invisiblepeople.tv/homeless-industrial-complex-homelessness-is-not-accidental/
>Boro president Donovan and council Caban called out. Nothing done. Old families are selling and leaving after generations.
That's Caban's goal; those people don't vote for her, she wanted them replaced with rootless hipsters who will support anything tagged 'progressive'.
@Send all the Russians back to Russia. That'll free up loads of housing for the homeless.
Or in your case to Creedmore.
One thing those Fauci masks did was make it very easy to commit crimes and get away with it.
The problem is that the local leadership encouraged developers to buy homes of long term residents who tried to fight developers. The community was ignored by the communty board and local elected officials - many who got donations from the real estate industry.
Everyone knew that the big 'hotels' that were going in in the last 30 years were not viable.
Now the birds have come home to roost. Now its what is left of the community that is no longer vialble thanks to civic, politicans, and community board which was set up to help them - aided the developers instead.
Took advantage of the gullible and shot or bought off any disenting voices.
George Stamatiades, chair of the Dutch Kills Civic Association, said that residents in the area have been lodging complaints but have gotten nowhere.
he also sat on the community board and he was a big proponent of these hotels being built in the first place and when the were being built the residents in the area loged complaints to the civic and community board and got nowhere too.
not clear what his point is with this statment. what has he done for the community to save it?
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