On Tuesday, June 16, State Senator Jessica Scarcella Spanton, District Attorney Michael McMahon and residents of Park Hill & Fox Hill, an affordable housing community on Staten Island, called for a borough-wide boycott of United Parcel Service (UPS) over its unfair delivery practices in the area. If any of the residents in the 1,500 units at Park Hill & Fox Hill receive a delivery from UPS, they must walk up to twenty minutes to the UPS truck checkpoint and wait in line with other residents. In a quote to silive.com, DA McMahon called for a boycott: “If possible, if [Staten Islanders] have the choice, they should pick a different carrier,” McMahon said. “This is a flagrant example of unfair practices.”

Residents of Park Hill & Fox Hill, over 99% of whom are non-white, have been forced to endure this discriminatory practice for over 30 years. In response, ECBAWM Attorneys have filed a lawsuit, led by resident Gordon Flowers, asking the court to force UPS to offer the same services offered throughout Staten Island, as well as monetary damages for each failed delivery over the past decades.

One of the lead plaintiffs, Mr. Gordon Flowers discussed the issues this discriminatory practice has caused him: “I have limited mobility. For me to deal with the chair and the package that I paid to have delivered to my door [is] very much so inconvenient.”

ECBAWM Attorneys Diane Houk, O. Andrew F. Wilson, and Laura Kokotailo and Paralegal Toby Shore, as well as co-counsel Maia Goodell of Vladeck Raskin Clark P.C. Aae proud to hold corporations accountable to discriminatory practices, and fight for justice for the residents of Park Hill & Fox Hill.

Read the full coverage of the proposed boycott here.