It was a small problem with big consequences: All one elderly gentleman from Queens wanted was his newspaper delivered to his doorstep. So he turned to 7 On Your Side.
Fear and frustration are what one Bronx woman felt after she was locked out of her building for nearly two weeks."He said he had a hematoma," Speranzi said."A big hematoma."
The injury was from from a concussion sustained after he fell down the stairs while retrieving his beloved paper.Ever since the accident, his daughters worried he may fall again and requested from both Post and the Daily News to deliver outside his front door, not the sidewalk. Speranzi then began documenting where the newspapers ended up. Many times the papers were tossed at the bottom of his stairs, or even further and near the street. Then, it got worse. One was thrown over a fence into a garden, but the most terrible toss landed in between the houses.Sometimes, she says delivery doesn't come at all.She said that left her dad lonely and depressed.
"He doesn't have much; he has a routine," she said."He sits down and reads the papers, and sits there for a couple hours. For him, it's a big deal. It's one of those things that hasn't changed since my mom died...We pay for service to have the paper delivered. I'm not going to go get it.""We are going to contact 7 On Your Side and tell them our story," Speranzi said.