More Space for Homeless at Sumner Armory?
According to the Daily News, some Bedford-Stuyvesant residents are once again protesting an expansion of the homeless shelter at the Sumner Armory on Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Putnam. The move would result in the shelter having 400 beds. While the city says it has brought in contractors to subdivide the shelter space so it can…
According to the Daily News, some Bedford-Stuyvesant residents are once again protesting an expansion of the homeless shelter at the Sumner Armory on Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Putnam. The move would result in the shelter having 400 beds. While the city says it has brought in contractors to subdivide the shelter space so it can hold double its current capacity, 200, “for temporary emergency housing, particularly during the winter months,” angered residents see the move as placing a disproportionate burden on the neighborhood to house the homeless. One person interviewed by the Daily News had the following to say: “They need to create new shelters in different areas. Why bring more into our community?” Meanwhile, a homeless advocate says the expansion is illegal since there are “lawsuits and local ordinances that limit the number of beds in a shelter to 200.”
Planned Expansion of Bedford-Stuyvesant Homeless Shelter Angers Local Residents [Daily News] GMAP
What gets me is that every chance these neighborhoods have, the city seems to fight. The Mayor is so fixated on Manhattan and those Brooklyn neighborhoods he deems “Manhattan-like” that he will do everything he can to support them at the expense of neighborhoods like Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy.It’s a constant battle to stop the little King from running roughshod over us. Stick more beds in Park Slope, and other neighborhoods, no here. We have more than our fair share- and that is fact.
“areas with lots of homeless shelters always have lower rents and property values. sorry, but it’s true, how could one even deny such a fact? part of me would LOVE if the TD bank next to my building was converted to a homeless shelter. the rent WOULD go down!”
Rob, we just looked at an apartment about a block from here that was almost $3K/month. Granted, it was enormous. And yes, I thought the price was too high. But it rented. (Not to us — although it had had a few more things that I was looking for, it might have.)
So, no, the rents in Crown Heights aren’t going down.
Granted, that is because Brooklyn’s perceived value has outstripped itself, but that is another story.
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I have the income to leave elsewhere but I have found that here people speak to one another not like the Slope where people live only because they can’t afford the upper east/west side. We all know the real deal.
“Jealousy is a disease” Megan from VH1’s Charm School 2.
*rob*
For crying out loud,why is it that the only neighborhood entitled to safe and clean streets is Park Slope as if they are the only community that has requirements for a quality standard of living. I am sorry but I am a resident of Bed Stuy by choice. I have the income to leave elsewhere but I have found that here people speak to one another not like the Slope where people live only because they can’t afford the upper east/west side. We all know the real deal.
This community continues to be short changed. Lest not forget not even 20 years ago or less, heroin users and drunks were frequent guest of your quaint Park Slope. Circa 1991,7th avenue. How soon we forget.
Montrose, your 1:00 should be used by the next oppositional city council candidate.
Rob – the point is: Soho already has a bunch of those types of places. You better believe if someone had the bright idea of opening up some other type of social service facility in the neighborhood, the residents would flip a shit and NEVER let it happen.
And by the same token, rob, the houses were there, before the armory was a shelter, too. DH makes a valid point.
hahahahha DH, point taken hahaha. yeah that methadone clinic around the corner is a real show, but makes for some interesting (and often entertaining) characters in the streets in the morning in soho!!!
but soho and bed stuy are two totally different animals, and remember that methadone clinic has been there since the days soho was completely empty.
*rob*
yeah rob, cuz the methadone clinics, shelters and other degenerate magnets in Soho have done wonders to keep the rent low.