Developers have filed paperwork with the Department of Buildings to convert an abandoned Glendale warehouse into a homeless shelter, according to city records.
The site, at 78-16 Cooper Ave., is where the city proposed a homeless shelter through Samaritan Village. The estimated cost, according to the records, is $3,727,100. The building permits are pending until City Comptroller Scott Stringer signs off on the proposed homeless shelter, a bureaucratic process that can take months or years according to Stringer’s spokesman.
The owner, according to the filed paperwork with the Department of Buildings, is Daniel Rabinowitz and the request for construction was filed on July 11.
“I don’t have a response,” Rabinowitz told The Courier. “I try to do the right thing. I don’t mean any harm.”
Several residents recently became aware of the filing and many in the group suggested swamping the applicants with calls and emails, a strategy they used on Stringer’s office and other politicians.
“So since the project has not gone to the comptroller’s office yet—why is the building owner filing permits for construction—are they all so confident that this will pass the comptrollers office or is the corruption deep enough that it will?” Kathy Masi, president of the Glendale Civic Association, asked on Facebook.
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