Two Massive Homeless Shelters Opening in South Slope--Meeting on 5/1

The city struck a deal to turn the two massive new construction buildings at 535 4th Avenue and 555 4th Avenue (from 14th Street to 16th Street) into two massive homeless shelters.

Combined this will be one of the largest homeless shelters in the city, stretching nearly two full blocks, 12 stories high with 282 units (nearly 1,000 people). Details on community impact–to schools, subways, safety, plans to redevelop 4th Avenue and encourage retail, etc.–have been withheld (or not considered).

There is a meeting on Wednesday, May 1st 6:30-8:30 at John Jay High School (237 7th Avenue).

Some elected officials appear to be pushing this through (and kept the plans quiet until now) (see below: sponsoring organization spends more than $1 million per year on lobbying). They need to hear from us.

Brad Lander: 718-499-1090
Joanne Simon: 718-246-4889
Nydia Velazquez: 718-222-5819

The developers–who have been plagued with stacks of violations on both buildings, including multiple injured workers, a partial collapse and months of stop work orders–are Adam America and Slate Property Group. The group pushing the shelter (Women in Need) is run by Christine Quinn (former council speaker who now earns $350,000 per year as CEO of the group).

Women in Need spends more than $1 million per year on lobbying.

https://bklyner.com/learn-about-two-homeless-shelters-coming-to-4th-avenue-at-may-1st-meeting/

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SoSlope | 6 years and 4 months ago

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@glarph, good question. In the area of the newly proposed shelters, there are:
Supportive housing at 575 5th Ave (16th and 5th)
A shelter on 8th Ave. between 14th and 15th
A shelter at 200 4th Ave.
Six shelters in CB6 (all along or close to 4th Ave.) including:
On 22nd Street
33rd Street
457 39th Street
764 4th Ave.

I am sure I am missing some. Can someone else chime in here?

So, it’s kind of hard to say that the community isn’t pulling its weight. While I like the image of your post–integrating our homeless neighbors into our neighborhoods which could be good for everyone, this sounds like a humongous, two-block long and 12 story tall shelter, which would not be so integrated. Frankly, I would rather see permanent affordable housing so that people can actually start a home, invest themselves in our community and break the cycle of homelessness. This is just a huge temporary shelter.

glarph | 6 years and 4 months ago

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Every neighborhood should include a mixture of community members. My neighborhood has public housing, supported housing and emergency shelters alongside its historic buildings. How many units does Park Slope have?

angelique.m.west | 6 years and 4 months ago

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Homeless people need a place to live. If you don’t like that you’re stepping in front of them on the street or sharing a subway car, well, this is the solution, is it not?

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You can thank all of those that voted for Deblasio.