Pushback on Planned Carroll Gardens Shelter

Regarding the plans revealed last week to locate a homeless shelter at 165 West 9th Street in Carroll Gardens, local residents have posted a petition on change.org asking for the chance to meet with local pols and discuss the proposal. Community Board Six has already said it plans to set up a public meeting to learn more about the plans. Columnist Andrew Rice of Capital New York charges the shelter is “something of an inside job, as D.H.S. prepares to award a no-bid contract worth millions of dollars to the agency’s recently departed commissioner, who appears, in turn, to be renting the building that will house the shelter from one of his newly established nonprofit’s own board members.” The proposed site is an apartment building self-certified by architect Robert Scarano, who is no longer permitted to file applications with the city, that has sat mostly empty for the last ten years because of construction issues, according to Curbed.
New Homeless Shelter Built on Old Relationships [Capital NY]
Homeless Shelter Proposed for Scarano Building [Brownstoner]
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