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Carnegie Hill purchases site
for possible methadone clinic
I am still against this location being used as an
outpatient drug facility due to its proximity to
an elementary and middle school, as well as the
undoubted congestion issue it will cause. I continue
to stand with my community’s sentiment.
Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernandez
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The possible future site of a methadone clinic at 2500 Williamsbridge Rd. in Allerton
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MEMBER:
BY JASON COHEN
A proposed methadone
clinic that was stopped
last year by Councilman
Mark Gjonaj and Assemblywoman
Nathalia Fernandez
appears to have used deception
to circumvent the community’s
efforts to halt the
facility from establishing
roots in the Pelham Parkway
North community .
In November 2019,
Gjonaj, Fernandez and
Community Board 11 held
a raucous town hall where
nearly 1,000 people expressed
displeasure with a
methadone clinic coming to
the community, specifi cally
because of its close proximity
to P.S. 89.
However, on Monday,
February 17, Carnegie
Hill Institute, posing as
CHI LLC, purchased the
brick one-story property
for $925,000 from Florence
Klapper, a Manhattan resident,
$75,000 less than the
original asking price.
Tracy Collins director
of the Offi ce of Government
Affairs and Federal Policy
of the Offi ce of Addiction
Services and Supports said
no plans have been fi led regarding
this location. Carnegie
Hill offi cials could not
be reached for comment to
defend their alleged duplicity
.
Elected offi cials and residents
feel like they are being
stabbed in the back by
Carnegies’s unscrupulous
behavior. Gjonaj, Fernandez
and Jeremy Warneke,
chairman of CB 11 were
caught off-guard by the
sale.
“I am still against this location
being used as an outpatient
drug facility due to
its proximity to an elementary
and middle school, as
well as the undoubted congestion
issue it will cause,”
Fernandez said. “I continue
to stand with my community’s
sentiment.”
While the elected offi -
cials are strongly opposed
to the facility coming to
the neighborhood, community
leaders Irene Estrada
feels the residents were
betrayed. An emotional
Estrada asked the Bronx
Times how the elected offi
cials could claim the deal
was dead and now the sale
has gone through.
“Any insinuations that
I, or any other elected offi -
cials, spearheaded or brokered
this sale is completely
false. I am making every attempt
to contact the buyer
to get a clear understanding
of their intentions and, if
they wish to open an outpatient
facility, urge they look
at other locations ,” Fernandez
said emphatically.
According to Estrada,
the community is furious
and on Saturday, March
7, the Friends of Pelham
Parkway are holding a rally
to protest the clinic.
“There will be no methadone
clinic there because
we will fi ght it in every
measure,” Estrada said.
“We the people of District
11 commit to fi ght for any
issue that comes against
us to disturb our peace of
mind. Enough is enough! I
am working with elected offi
cials to make sure we are
all on the sane page.
We encourage the people
of our communities to
be at peace because we the
people will not allow any
clinic to be anywhere near
a school, house of worship
or residential area. We are
watching closely to make
sure it stays that way.”
In September, Carnegie
Hill Institute presented a
proposal at Community
Board 11’s Health and Social
Services Committee
regarding their intention to
open a drug treatment center
in the corner property
on Williamsbridge Road
between Hone and Mace avenues.
CB 11 already has nine
active and certifi ed chemical
dependence treatment
centers within its boundaries,
with another located
just outside.
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