Meeting Tonight to Protest Armory Intake Center
Just a reminder that tonight there’s a town hall meeting being hosted by State Senator Eric Adams to discuss Bloomberg’s plan to stick Crown Heights with the city’s main homeless intake center. The meeting takes place at 7 p.m. at the St. Peter Claver Roman Catholic Church Auditorium at 11 Claver Place between Franklin and…
Just a reminder that tonight there’s a town hall meeting being hosted by State Senator Eric Adams to discuss Bloomberg’s plan to stick Crown Heights with the city’s main homeless intake center. The meeting takes place at 7 p.m. at the St. Peter Claver Roman Catholic Church Auditorium at 11 Claver Place between Franklin and Classon Avenues. Bed Stuy Blog has a flyer for the event posted here.
I believe Big Jugs’ position would go something like this:
“I think it’s a swell idea to concentrate all homeless services for the entire city of New York into a small number of working class communities of color in central Brooklyn. I furthermore think it would be great to make sure this concentration of services was in an area that is hard for the homeless to get to, and is devoid of hospitals, jobs and social service programs, but has an active drug trade and gang problems.”
Am I getting this right Big Jugs? Please feel free to edit.
Anyhow, just got back from the Town Hall. Biggest and most animated crowd I’ve seen yet – probably about 250 people over the course of the night. Lots of pols (LJ, BDB, MM, KC, etc.) plus residents of the shelter, Coalition for the Homeless, PACC, neighborhood residents, etc. Seems like it’s really picking up speed, but not sure if we’ll get momentum in time.
And Big Jugs is the least intelligent.
You have yet to define your position other than to say you’re all for the intake center in Crown Heights. We have valid, sensible reasons to oppose it: it’s bad for the homeless, it’s bad for the communities around it. What have you got?
Infinitejester’s post is the most intelligent in this thread.
See you soon, Bxgrl. 😉
Hey NOP! How are you?
Dr. Dean- my bet is that all Bloomberg cares about is getting them out of Manhattan. And making it so difficult to get a bed that they simply don’t bother. So he is really shooting himself in the foot- if they won’t come here, they’ll stay on the street in Manhattan. But they won’t be getting services or shelter- so the City”saves” money. It’s just my guess but I can’t find any good explanation to make this the one intake center for the City- especially a city as huge as this one is.
So the solution is to try to dump the problem on us. Bklyn is home- we are fighting back but we also have do nothing elected officials like Al Vann who can only be bothered to show up if he gets attention or press. We have people like Tish James fighting for us (her area of Crown Heights is only 2 blocks or something ridiculously small) , but Al Vann? MIA.
Makes sense.
That means that the city will not want to do it. WHERE’S THE CITY COUNCIL’S BRIBES, campaigns just don’t pay for themselves and scumbags need good PR.
Lost:
Yes. Perfect for a homeless shelter, don’t you agree?
I’m sure the neighbors would be terribly supportive, too.
NOP, are you talking about that building mentioned in that old article?:
http://therealdeal.com/newyork/articles/new-condos-on-gramercy-park
Back in town for the week, I visited family in Gramercy Park and passed the old — and empty! — Salvation Army women’s hotel on Gramercy Park South.
Move the homeless there! It’s designed as a “temporary residence” with dorm-like rooms and a dining room on the first floor.
And the guys would enjoy a key to the private park.