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Shred your documents for free with Schneps Media and AARP
BY MAC SORENSEN
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 fi ve 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-fi ling season;
many taxpayers like to do a spring cleaning
of their old fi nancial 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 . Th ieves will go
through any length, including rifl ing 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 confi dential documents for destruction. If
you haven’t removed staples or paper clips,
that’s OK; 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 Fift h 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: Th ursday, 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.
Suff olk County: Th ursday, May 19, 11 a.m.-2
p.m., Walt Whitman Shops, 60 Walt Whitman
Rd., Huntington Station, near the Route 110
entrance behind Citibank.
Manhattan: Friday, May 20, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.,
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Offi ce Plaza, 163
West 125th St., Harlem.
Register to attend at shred4free.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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