Elderly Queens Co-op Residents Missing Food Deliveries, Pol Says

FAR ROCKAWAY, QUEENS — The co-op board of a city-subsidized housing complex in Far Rockaway is withholding food deliveries from elderly residents amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to state Assembly Member Stacey Pheffer Amato.

The co-op board at Dayton Beach Park, a Mitchell-Lama property with 1,144 apartments across five buildings, is refusing food deliveries from the city's office of Housing Preservation and Development that are supposed to go to seniors, Pheffer Amato says.

Instead, at least 600 boxes of food delivered Tuesday ended up in the storage unit of the nearby Dayton Towers, another Mitchell-Lama complex along Shore Front Parkway in Far Rockaway, according to Pheffer Amato.

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"I'm talking about peas, pasta, fresh vegetables that you can make five days worth of soup with," Pheffer Amato said in a video posted Thursday to Facebook. "I will not let this food sit here. It is unacceptable."

Co-op residents have been warned they'll be fined if a delivery is left in front of their door, Pheffer Amato added, urging residents to call her office at if they are fined for a delivery during the pandemic.

Patch has reached out to the Dayton Beach Park co-op board and the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development for comment and will update this story with their responses.

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