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BRONX TIMES REPORTER, APR. 22-28, 2022 BXR
Identity thieves are known to
mine through receptacles looking
for receipts and personal
documents to help commit their
fraudulent crimes, which makes
shredding anything containing
your sensitive information so important.
Schneps Media and AARP
New York want to help you protect
yourselves from identity
thieves by partnering together
to sponsor seven free shredding
events across the Five Boroughs
and Long Island in the weeks
ahead.
We’re bringing shredder
trucks to seven locations in April
and May so you can have your unwanted
personal documents torn
to bits. All you need to do is register
at shred4free.com for any
one of the seven scheduled events.
“We do these events starting
in April because it’s the end of the
tax-filing season; many taxpayers
like to do a spring cleaning
of their old financial statements
and other records,” said Wilson
Guzman, associate state director
of community engagement
for AARP New York. “Shredding
old documents is one of the
best defenses to protect yourself
from Identity theft. Thieves will
go through any length, including
rifling through dumpsters and
other trash receptacles. It is one
of the main tricks of the scammer’s
trade. Shredding community
events will allow consumers
to discard sensitive documents
safely and securely. On the other
hand, shredding documents yourself
is time-consuming, and if you
don’t do it properly, papers can
still be pieced together.”
Each registered person for the
shredding events are limited to
three bags or small boxes of confidential
documents for destruction.
If you haven’t removed staples
or paper clips, that’s okay;
they can be shredded along with
the documents with the powerful
shredders on site.
Shredding equipment will be
available for three hours at each
location, or until full capacity is
reached.
Among the items you can
shred at these free events include
tax information; investment records;
bank statements; cancelled
checks; pay stubs; ATM and
credit card receipts; credit card
statements; insurance information;
utility bills; and more.
Here are the seven locations
and dates of the Free Shred
Events coming up:
Bronx — Tuesday, April 26, 11
a.m.-2 p.m., AMC Bay Plaza Cinema
13 parking lot, 2210 Bartow
Ave.
Queens — Wednesday, May 4,
11 a.m.-2 p.m., Plaxall parking lot,
5-25 46th Ave., corner of 46th Avenue
and 5th Street, Long Island
City.
Brooklyn — Wednesday, May
11, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., in front of Erasmus
High School, 914 Flatbush
Ave., between Church and Snyder
Avenues.
Staten Island — Thursday,
May 12, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Hilton Garden
Inn Staten Island, rear parking
lot, 1110 South Ave.
Nassau County — Wednesday,
May 18, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Sunrise
Mall, parking lot adjacent to
Chase Bank, off Sunrise Highway,
Massapequa.
Suffolk County — Thursday,
May 19, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Walt Whitman
Shops, 60 Walt Whitman
Road, Huntington Station, near
the Route 110 entrance behind Citibank.
Manhattan – Friday, May 20,
11 a.m.-2 p.m., Adam Clayton Powell
Jr. State Office Plaza, 163 West
125th St., Harlem.
Register to attend at shred-
4free.com.
Note: All participants are expected
to comply with COVID-19
safety precautions consistent
with CDC, federal, state and local
orders/regulations, and at a
minimum, to wear masks if unvaccinated
and maintain social
distance of 6 feet or more.
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