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Crowd drills into de Blasio over Glendale
homeless shelter at Forest Hills town hall
BY MAX PARROTT
MPARROTT@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@QNS
When Mayor Bill de Blasio
made his way down into
Forest Hills for a town hall
on Feb. 19, he waded into a section of
Queens that has been an epicenter
of simmering discontentment for
the last several months.
The signs of protest were evident
outside the where angry constituent
rallied over the opening of the
Glendale homeless shelter and the
policies of Schools Chancellor Richard
Carranza. As de Blasio made his
way into the JHS 190 Russell Sage
gymnasium to join Councilwoman
Karen Koslwotiz, boos drowned out
applause from the audience.
During the forum, which lasted
more than two hours, constituents
made repeat complaints over borough
based jail plan, bail reform
legislation, the southeast Queens
school diversity plan and the
Glendale shelter.
Beyond Forest Hills residents —
who continue to be upset about the
Borough-based jail that is coming
to their neighborhood — de Blasio
was confronted with neighboring
Glendale residents over the
homeless shelter that welcomed its
first tenants last Friday on Cooper
Avenue.
“It is just disgusting that you
have shoved a homeless shelter in
my neighborhood,” said one angry
constituent, who accused the mayor
of making backroom deals in approving
the project.
The moment gave the mayor a rare
opportunity to address community
members who had been regularly
rallying against the proposal, up
until its very recent opening. He
started by calling the allegation
against him “false.”
“You hate us, de Blasio,” interrupted
another audience member.
“The bottom line here is that
we have people who are just like
everyone in this who are working
people who lost their homes,” said
hizzoner.
Department of Homeless Services
Commissioner Steven Banks
then stepped in to emphasize that
the new shelter would serve only
people from Queens and that goal
of the facility is to help stabilize
residents who have a job — “a
place where people are going to be
warehoused.”
That was just the not end of neighborhood
safety concerns at the meeting.
Confronted twice about the fear
that bail reform was leading to an
uptick in crime, de Blasio called the
talking point a form of “right-wing
propaganda.”
Read the full story on QNS.com.
Mayor de Blasio responded to repeated criticism at his town hall on Feb.
19. Photo: Max Parrott/QNS
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