City Planning Approves FAC Project at 575 5th Ave
The Fifth Avenue Committee won the latest battle in the war over the 49-unit supportive housing project it is seeking to build on a municipal parking lot at 575 Fifth Avenue in the South Slope when the New York City Planning Commission blessed the project yesterday. Back in April, Brooklyn Boro Prez Marty Markowitz came…
The Fifth Avenue Committee won the latest battle in the war over the 49-unit supportive housing project it is seeking to build on a municipal parking lot at 575 Fifth Avenue in the South Slope when the New York City Planning Commission blessed the project yesterday. Back in April, Brooklyn Boro Prez Marty Markowitz came out publicly against the project, siding with a certain faction of neighbors who were concerned about the unseemly residents it would bring into the area. FAC addressed this issue in its press release: “The City Planning Commission’s vote in favor of the project is an important step in preserving the diversity in our Park Slope community and ensuring that everyone regardless of race, income or medical history can live with dignity in the neighborhood.” The press release also contained details about the composition of the units: 24 are slotted for formerly homeless people living with mental illness, 5 for formerly homeless individuals living with HIV/AIDS, and 20 for low-income community residents. Next step: A City Council’s Land Use Committee hearing. GMAP
Marty DK’s Fifth Avenue Housing Project [Brownstoner]
City Planning Considers 5th Ave Housing Facility [Brownstoner]
FAC Development at 575 Fifth Avenue [Brownstoner]
Well, neighborhood for nuts – You have done a better job than anyone else of establishing the mental character of those apposed to this project.
You should go before the city council (more importantly Mr De Bla Zio) and give your best dissertation as to why this project should be stopped.
Oh how great that would be!
Nazism? I just was practicing my German (not very good at it, I’m afraid, I’ll use French next time).
If the shoe fits “neighborhood for nuts,” guess you are wearing it.
You still did not answer my question…so again, was the facility/building in your ‘nabe (neighborhood for bigots?) you are ranting about a FAC facility?
“government should only intrude into the lives of citizens on YOUR terms”
Correction “OUR terms”
I think I know the answer.
lostinbrooklyn, you wrote:
“AND P.S. you never answered my question, did FAC run the facility near you that you keep complaining about?”
Since the FAC acronym stands for Fifth Avenue Committee, you can be sure it didn’t advocate on behalf of the hookers, drug addicts and criminals residing in the building near me.
As for your lame comparisons with nazism, well, I see you are simply an idiot who thinks the government should only intrude into the lives of citizens on YOUR terms, which seem to include inserting problematic people into residential neighborhoods.
OK folks, let’s let “neighborhood for nuts” off the hook.
Enough trollish, ignorant and down right racist rants (oh, did I say bigoted? perhaps that’s a better word…wait, I already said that above). I his/her book, it would not matter where the facility was located, as long as it’s not on 16th & 5th Ave.
What’s the investment in a ‘nabe that you do not reside? Business owner perhaps? Nearby biz owner?
I have a solution for you:
Let cart all these less fortunate folks who are working hard (with the aid of meds/therapy/social programs or not) off to camps (perhaps Floyd Bennett Field) and keep them away from us “good people.”
Remind you of something from our past?
Seig Heil!
AND P.S. you never answered my question, did FAC run the facility near you that you keep complaining about? NO!
anonymous at 9:42, you wrote:
“i guarantee you the 45 or so people living in that building will not cause the problems so as to overwhelm the other 50,000 of us in park slope.”
Quite true. Like I said, it’s the people who live near the building who will experience the problems. Not you.
You’ll see.
You wrote:
“your stalking the site writing something to each and every point and person who is supportive of this project only contributes to the continued ignorant behavior you’ve demonstrated.”
Yeah. You’re right, the mentally ill never commit crimes. Neither do drug addicts.
in your effort to get people on this site to cry out against this project, you’ve alienated yourself and in the process made me realize that if it’s not too late, perhaps they might have an opening for you at the facility.
you might be too far gone though for a place like that. they only take high functioning mentally ill people.
i guarantee you the 45 or so people living in that building will not cause the problems so as to overwhelm the other 50,000 of us in park slope.
your stalking the site writing something to each and every point and person who is supportive of this project only contributes to the continued ignorant behavior you’ve demonstrated.
that and the fact that you seemingly don’t even live in the neighborhood so can’t imagine why you’d care so much.
only someone off their rocker would do such a thing, in my book. want me to look up the url for the application to the building for you bud?
anon 9:05, you wrote:
“lets change your name to neighborhood nuts and leave it at that. you are are a sicko in my book. the worst kind of sicko.”
Suit yourself. But I’ll bet a dollar right now that if you live next door to the new facility, you’ll lead the charge to boot the residents after they’ve begun to bring misery into your life.
You wrote:
“ignorant.”
Sure. Get back to me after you’ve spent time living near your favorite home for the mentally impaired.
There are far better locations for these facilities than rebounding neighborhoods like the one around 5th Ave and 16th St.
lets change your name to neighborhood nuts and leave it at that.
you are are a sicko in my book.
the worst kind of sicko.
ignorant.
shrink to fit, you wrote:
“I used to live right above the Blockbuster at 15th and 5th and now live three blocks away. My family has no problems with this project.”
Of course you and your family don’t object to the new facility. It’s not yet open for business. At this point, the pending problems are still in the potential stage.
In any case, as one who has lived around sites for problem people, I can assure you, neighborhood problems arise. Aside from the now-vacant facility near me, there was another. A group home. About two months ago one of the residents started a fire in it and it burned almost to the ground. Drug deals were often conducted across the street from the house, and two years ago one of the buyers killed a dealer.
In essence, you want to argue that most of the undesireable activities occurring around these sites are infrequent enough to be invisible to those with no sensitivity to street activity. However, there’s plenty going on and eventually the neighbors know it and resent it, and want the residents to disappear.