WWW.QNS.COM RIDGEWOOD TIMES MARCH 16, 2017 3 Mayor: Homeless shelter coming to CB 5 area 60-89 Myrtle Avenue, Ridgewood, NY 11385 Well experienced in Personal & Business Tax Returns, Accounting and Payroll Services WE SERVE CLIENTS ALL AROUND USA AND IN ITALY AFFORDABLE PRICING EVEN FOR COMPLEX TAX RETURNS Please call us/email us for more information We also speak SPANISH & ITALIAN OUR PERSONALIZED SERVICES INCLUDE Individual Tax Returns Corporate, Partnership, LLC’s Tax Returns Expat & NR Tax Returns Tax Estimate & Consultation ITIN Certifying Acceptance Agent Accounting Services Payroll Services Corporation Setup Resolving IRS & State Tax issues Year Long Services SANTINO ASARO Certified Public Accountant [email protected] www.AsaroCPA.com 60-89 Myrtle Avenue Ridgewood NY 11385 Phone: (718)233-2908 Fax:(929)322-2188 BY ANTHONY GIUDICE [email protected] @A_GIUDICEREPORT Mayor Bill de Blasio has drawn a line in the sand: the greater Ridgewood area represented by Community Board 5 (CB 5) is getting a homeless shelter, regardless of any opposition to one. De Blasio made the statement twice last week: once during a town hall meeting in Brooklyn on Thursday, March 9, and then the following day in a radio interview on WNYC. As part of the mayor’s “Turning the Tide on Homelessness in New York City” plan, de Blasio wants to create homeless shelters in areas where there currently are none, and to place homeless people in shelters in neighborhoods they originated from. According to de Blasio, there are 250 people currently in the shelter system that have come from CB 5, which encompasses Maspeth, Glendale, Ridgewood and Middle Village. Maspeth went head-to-head with de Blasio and the Human Resources Administration (HRA) for nearly half of 2016, protesting the administration’s push to convert a Holiday Inn Express into a homeless shelter for adult men. After months of protests, rallies and marches, de Blasio conceded to using only a portion of the hotel for homeless men. “We are going to go back in to that community board, fi nd the best possible location and create a new shelter,” de Blasio said during the radio interview. “Either way that community board needs to have shelter capacity. Two hundred and fi ft y people from that community board are in our shelter system. Is it fair to all other communities that those folks would be elsewhere? No.” Robert Holden, president of the Juniper Park Civic Association (JPCA) and member of the Maspeth Middle Village Task Force, is on board with the mayor’s new plan for keeping the homeless in the communities they come from — but has some doubts about the mayor’s motives. “If Maspeth had in the Holiday Inn Express only people from Maspeth, who would oppose that? We wouldn’t be protesting if that was the case,” Holden said. “No neighborhood would be that cold-hearted to not help their own. When the mayor fi rst said that every community should help, he wasn’t concerned with putting people from the communities in the shelters. Thanks to Maspeth, thanks to us, we got him to change his tune.” CB 5 is gearing up to view any proposal sent their way by the de Blasio administration, and is willing to work together to fi nd the best solution to the city’s growing homeless problem. “We will look at their proposal when they have a proposal,” said Gary Giordano, district manager of CB 5. “I understand that unfortunately the homeless population is increasing. I believe the biggest reason for that is market forces, and that in portions of our community board, from what we know, people are getting pushed out of their apartments by new property owners who are looking for more rent for the apartment aft er they pay very high sums of money for the building.” Photo: Anthony Giudice/QNS Mayor Bill de Blasio made it clear that Community Board 5 will be getting a homeless shelter.
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