Apr 21, 2012

Whitestone Gift Shop Cares for Boro StraysBy Joe AnutaTimesLedger.com

Whitestone, NY – Instead of simply asking for money, Sharon Taylor decided to tap into one of America’s favorite past times to fund her animal rescue organization: shopping.

Taylor runs As You Wish, a boutique gift shop on 14th Avenue in Whitestone, where all the profits go toward helping animals that have been rescued from the streets of Queens.

“When you see an innocent animal come from the street looking bad, abused or just destroyed, you want to help them and get them into a home where their life is turned around,” she said. “People are out there helping trees and the oceans — with me it’s animals. That’s the way it is.

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