Bay Ridge political leader urges residents to count homeless
Liam McCabe says his dad lived on the streets
For Liam McCabe, the plight of the homeless is personal and poignant.
McCabe, founder of the Brooklyn South Conservative Club, said his late father, William McCabe, was a homeless veteran who lived on the streets of New York City. The older McCabe died nearly 10 years ago.
“This is an issue near and dear to my heart because my father, Willie McCabe, was a homeless veteran. Every winter I worried about his safety until the winter we lost him. I don’t want any other veterans to suffer the way he did,” said McCabe, an aide to U.S. Rep. Dan Donovan (R-C-Southwest Brooklyn-Staten Island).