Thursday Links
Middagh Street, Bklyn Hts. Photo by Frank Lynch. Vallejo City Council Declares Bankruptcy [NY Times] A New Council Spending Inquiry [NY Times] How Many Locals Has Ikea Hired? [Daily News] Minerva Likely to Be in Sight [Daily News] Bedbugs Riding the Rails [Daily News] Quinn Announces New Budget Rules [NY Sun] Sean Bell Protest Hits…
Middagh Street, Bklyn Hts. Photo by Frank Lynch.
Vallejo City Council Declares Bankruptcy [NY Times]
A New Council Spending Inquiry [NY Times]
How Many Locals Has Ikea Hired? [Daily News]
Minerva Likely to Be in Sight [Daily News]
Bedbugs Riding the Rails [Daily News]
Quinn Announces New Budget Rules [NY Sun]
Sean Bell Protest Hits Brooklyn [Eagle]
4th Ave. F Stop Getting Reno’d [AMNY]
NY Real Estate: Flatbush [AMNY]
That doesn’t make sense. Crown Heights is a shithole with homeless people out the wazoo. Any homeless shelter opened there will receive plenty of use!
An important issue re the move of the homeless central intake center is the uiderlying motive. Most of the press indicates that its very purpose is to _discourage_ people from accessing it in the first place in order to save money. The hope is that by placing it in Crown Heights rather than Manhattan some people who are homeless will instaead continue to burden families or friends rather than make use of the city’s facility.
Mention away, but it has little bearing on the topic at hand. Social services and landmarked areas are extremely compatible.
Yeah…nothing to lose. We’re about to be the largest area ever landmarked in NYC. Just thought I’d mentioned that. Ahem!!!
Tdeezy, you’re missing the point. Crown Heights has less to lose than most other Brooklyn neighborhoods. This is not just a reason to locate the homeless center there, but also a reason for you and other CH residents to relax. This center doesn’t pose the least threat to you or your neighborhood. I honestly don’t see why there is so much bile and vitriol over this.
nevermind I missed that line in your post 1:07pm. still i think it sucks that a community with a lower tax base gets stuck with whatever manhattan wants to discharge on it becasue they don’t have the money to allocate for a sports center to make the space unavailable
1:07pm or anyone else who knows:
Not an argument, I’m actually asking: Who came up with the money for the rec center in Park Slope? City funds State funds? Park Slope community itself? Depending on were the money came from could it be that the money could have been spent in another community but better heeled/influential constituants pushed for it to be spent in their neighborhood?
ps. i don’t live in Crown Heights, I just thinks it’s blatantly obvious that this community is unfairly being burdened and I don’t see how any citizen can argue otherwise.
Tdeezy: “The Park Slope armory got a new fitness center, why can’t they do something similar to this center?”
A: Because no one came up with the funding. A rec center in the Bedford Avenue armory was considered at the same time as the armory on Eighth Avenue. But elected officials in Park Slope allocated funds and those in Crown Heights…. Hey, when is the Jackie Robinson Center going to open at Fulton and Downing? (Same elected officials.) That’s been in the works for a decade or longer.
just a troll and folks who fall for the bait.