Greenpoint Booming But Shelter Looms
Greenpoint gets today’s royal treatment from the Wall Street Journal, which ran a profile on the burgeoning stretch of Franklin Street. Although growing at a slower pace than some parts of Williamsburg, Franklin Avenue offers more attractive rents to creative types opening clothing boutiques, restaurants, cafes, and even a private skateboard park. The piece also…
Greenpoint gets today’s royal treatment from the Wall Street Journal, which ran a profile on the burgeoning stretch of Franklin Street. Although growing at a slower pace than some parts of Williamsburg, Franklin Avenue offers more attractive rents to creative types opening clothing boutiques, restaurants, cafes, and even a private skateboard park. The piece also brings up the much talked about homeless shelter that’s been proposed for 400 McGuinness Boulevard. According to CB1 chairman Christopher Olechowski, “I don’t think those involved with the proposal realize how much it will affect property values as well as the quality of life of residents.”
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Sorry, apparently too busy today- skimming the lede, I thought the point was that that area was getting all fancy, and the fancy people were bitching about the homeless shelter hurting their property values.
So, while my comment stands, probably not accurate here. mea maxima, etc.
What’s the story with the oil slick?
n i m b y
11217 – Franklin is not over an oil slick. the blocks coming off of it are all “brownstoner” like lined with trees and townhouses. would think you would love that area.
I am you, you are me, DH
Oh please, home price declines, bedbugs, lice, etc., wouldn’t exist without homeless shelters? There’s been a municipal shelter (now a women’s shelter) in the armory in Park Slope since the ‘80s (8th Ave. & 14-15th Sts). For decades, and until recently, there was methadone clinic in PS (8th Ave. & 5th St., now a Gilda’s Club). The toll these services have had on Park Slope values during the same decades has been terrible (not). If the proposed Greenpoint shelter won’t deal with or solve the issues and needs of the local homeless population, then fight for an expansion of services, rather than fight that a shelter not be built at all.
jinx WBer
“Seriously; they need shelter somewhere, and putting them around rich people will maybe irritate the rich people enough to make them try and do something to reduce the number of homeless people. ”
there is already a pretty big homeless problem in Greenpoint – and this new shelter will do nothing to address that. It is an intake center (revolving door) which will be bringing more homeless to the area.
“Besides, I’d rather annoy rich people than poor people. Poor people have enough problems.”
rich people, in northern greenpoint? you serious?
Well a) there aren’t very many rich people in Greenpoint, particularly near where the shelter is proposed. More important, b) the proposed shelter really doesn’t do anything to address Greenpoint’s homeless issues. Greenpoint has a big homeless population, almost none of whom would be served by/benefit from this shelter.
I know a lot of people in the neighborhood oppose any kind of shelter, but there are also a lot of homeless advocates in the neighborhood who are really frustrated by this shelter because it doesn’t address our specific homeless needs and poisons the well on homeless issues in general.
My only point was that shelter in no way looms over Franklin Street, which was the supposed subject of the WSJ article.