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]
Ooops. Meant 575 5th Ave (not 16th, though it is on the corner). Too damn hot out!
Anon 2:21pm
This is not a treatment facility but a place to live. The formerly homeless (mentally disabled or not) are at their highest level of sustainability and support. The next step outside of FAC’s great supportive/affordable housing development is a person going out on their own and getting their own place!
Attitudes like yours are narrow minded, uneducated and as some have said above, make me more afraid of YOU then my potential new neighbors at 575 16th St.
Chew on that one a bit.
This has been a long haul for FAC. Many compromises made to local electeds and folks in the community, but this is the best plan for this spot. But, i have said that all along 🙂
uh…mental illness does not necessarily mean psychotic, 2:34. lots and lots of people have mental illness and plenty survive and behave just like any other person, if treated with medication, therapy, etc.
sorry, but the way the poster above talks, i would indeed stand behind my arguement that he sounds scarier than a lot of people suffering from mental illnesses.
Not to quibble over details, but a person typing into a computer is less scary than a mentally ill homeless person. There’s no doubt about that.
and your solution is…….? formerly homeless people should live…..where….?
if you buy a condo on the edge of town down the block from a city owned development site exactly how much control do you think you will have over that site?
so you think what…2:21? the mentally ill people should go where? you think he doesn’t have a right to live???
to be honest, you sound far scarier than any mentally ill homeless person i’ve seen lately.
excuse you.
hey 1:30 & 1:34, tell that to parents of Kendra Webdale, the girl who was pushed in front of an oncoming train by a mentally ill homeless man in Jan 1999. Its easy to post the crap on a blog but when you see one of these guys screaming at a Mom and toddler on the sidewalk, its pretty scary.
I agree. There really was no valid objection other than NIMBYism.
i’m glad this project has been approved.
nice to see something that is in keeping with urban living and helping everyone out, not just a select few.
good news.