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WHERE IT HURTS: Protestors from Queens demonstrated outside of HRA Commissioner Steven Banks’s
Windsor Terrace townhouse on March 18. Photo by Colin Mixson
Windsor terror
Locals plagued by persistant protests
outside city offi cial’s home in W’Terrace
BY COLIN MIXSON
A residential Windsor Terrace
street is ground zero
for opponents of the mayor’s
controversial scheme
to build new homeless shelters
throughout the fi ve boroughs,
according to block
residents, who called the
clamor of protests against
their neighbor — the city’s
homelessness czar — a
new normal.
“It’s been happening
pretty regularly,” said 18-
year-old Isaiah Klein-Cloud.
“People are kind of used to
it by now.”
Cloud shares his Sherman
Street block between
10th and 11th avenues with
Department of Homeless
Services Commissioner
Steven Banks, whom Hizzoner
in 2016 tapped to lead
the agency, making Banks
the face of his initiative to
create new shelters, some
of which occupy hotels ,
for transient New Yorkers
in neighborhoods with already
high concentration
of homeless people.
But Banks has snubbed
formal invitations to address
locals’ concerns in
the past , and that reluctance
apparently motivated
New Yorkers to bring their
grievances to his doorstep
as early as September
2016, when protestors from
distant Maspeth, Queens
vowed to stake out the offi
cial’s townhouse nightly
until the city dropped a
plan to construct a shelter
in the area, according to a
DNA Info report .
Those demonstrators
were just the fi rst to gather
on the block, according to
neighbors, who said a Monday
protest featuring a busload
of angry residents from
Rockaway, Queens — who
demanded the city abandon
efforts to build a shelter
in their neighborhood
with chants of “fi re Banks”
— was the third such rally
since last summer.
The latest protest, however,
was relatively tame
in comparison to past demonstrations,
one of which
drew a “nasty” crowd
whose members blasted air
horns while storming Sherman
Street, according to
one block resident.
“This is our third,” said
Noa Heyman. “It’s much
more civilized than the
fi rst one.”
Another man living on
Sherman Street said most
of the demonstrations don’t
bother locals on the block,
because they tend to wrap
up fast, and Banks often
apologizes to neighbors
afterwards.
“They come and go very
quickly,” said the block
resident, who declined
to give his name. “Banks
apologizes. He says,
“Sorry for disturbing your
evening.’ ”
And although the rallies
seemed to do little to change
the city’s plan to combat
homelessness, they did incite
thoughtful dialogue
about the issue between
Heyman and her kids ages
5, 7, and 9, who began to ask
some tough questions after
watching protestors blast
their neighbor.
“We have conversations
about homelessness,
our responsibilities, and
why these people feel upset
about having a shelter
in their neighborhoods,”
she said.