Crown Heights Homeless Intake Plan Stirs Controversy
This morning Metro has an article about how the city’s plan to close its homeless intake center on East 28th Street in Manhattan and move it to Crown Heights is being opposed by some homeless advocates and politicians. (News of the relocation effort broke last week.) On the Manhattan end, advocates believe that closing the…
This morning Metro has an article about how the city’s plan to close its homeless intake center on East 28th Street in Manhattan and move it to Crown Heights is being opposed by some homeless advocates and politicians. (News of the relocation effort broke last week.) On the Manhattan end, advocates believe that closing the Kips Bay facility, which has 850 beds in addition to being an intake center, will mean that more homeless people are on the street. On the Brooklyn end, City Councilmember Letitia James calls the proposal “misguided” since Crown Heights is oversaturated with social services. The city wants the new intake center to be in the armory at Bedford and Atlantic avenues, which already has a men’s shelter. Dept. of Homeless Services Commissioner Rob Hess defends the move by saying that People living on the street are not going to a centralized intake center. The topic’s been debated in comments here before, so we decided to open it up to a poll:
Brooklyn Crying Foul on Homeless Strategy [Metro]
Crown Heights Doesn’t Want UES Homeless Center [Brownstoner]
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I think this will be good for Crown Heights and for all of Brooklyn. I’m sick of all the homeless people on the street in CH. They need another shelter.
The What – how many times did you vote in support of the move?
Hey Brownstoner!!! See why I hate you!!!! This a covert Race Baiting post!!! Got to get those numbers you huh! I thinking of going back to my “old” self again. You don’t live around there so, why are trying to stir up this crap!!!!
Do a story on FULTON ST> pick any location! St. James, Grand, Classon! Just do homeslice!!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…..
Hey Brownstoner!!! See why I hate you!!!! This a covert Race Baiting post!!! Got to get those numbers you huh! I thinking of going back to my “old” self again. You don’t live around there so, why are trying to stir up this crap!!!!
Do a story on FULTON ST> pick any location! St. James, Grand, Classon! Just do homeslice!!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…..
The question was posed badly on the survey.
We should oppose this intake center moving to Brooklyn not just because it’s bad for Crown Heights, but because it’s bad for the homeless. It’s NIMBY and privileged of Manhattan to be able to export their homeless to Brooklyn. I agree with Clinton Hillster that every borough should have their own intake center. Think of the logistics of all of it too, for both the homeless and the city. It’s idiotic.
Brooklyn needs to organize over this and not get all “it’s not my neighborhood so I don’t care”. Like the way the question on the survey here is presented. Loads of homeless coming into Brooklyn from all over the city affects all of us.
Proximity to a hospital (ie Bellevue) is probably pretty important — lot of medical, mental illness as well as drug abuse, fights, blah, blah, blah. NIMBY, as they say . . .
9:36, as I have explained numerous times, the Bedford Avenue and Park Slope armories were considered at the same time for adaptation to partial recreational space. Park Slope elected officials stepped up with funding; Crown Heights electeds did not.
Every area of the city should have an intake center. We should not allow manhattan to export their homeless.
Why don’t they put it next to Gracie Mansion or next to Bloombergs summer home