Gothamist: Manhattan, Crown Heights Doesn't Want Your Homeless

Future Taliban

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:27:36 -0500

This will all seem like a minor issue 15 years from now when ALL of Manhattan is converted into a penal colony island.

Amanda Harlech

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:50:52 -0500

It Is also a matter of buffering the impact of this "type" of population (mostly men with MAJOR mental issues) in an already vulnerable neigborhood. Manhattan balances the impact from these individuals by having more diverse ($$) and more projects that mantain the "health" of the public space. Brooklyn is to poor and too fragmented to just relocate people that take over the weak life of the public spaces. I think It will demolish that area taking into account that most people want to have a sane space for their families. The system is FKD in deed, but these people need like an island or something, they are not reciving the "treatments" they need and on the contrary they do will put the comunity down.

moominpapa

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:24:56 -0500

So far, the city has yet to make a case that moving the intake center from Manhattan (where the majority of the city's homeless currently live) to Brooklyn makes sense. Though people may be accusing CH residents of NIMBY, this may be a case of Manhattan folks not wanting the homeless in their backyard, either. Sorry guys, you had 'em first.

Amanda Harlech

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:19:58 -0500

Nonconsequential, it is a theory of ethics.

teany

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:11:09 -0500

A few years ago, they had tried to move the Bellevue men's shelter to the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue in the 20s. I remember there were fliers posted all over my building. Didn't really get it, since Bellevue isn't that much further away...

Rfive

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:50:45 -0500

non-consentual?

Amanda Harlech

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:44:06 -0500

Punishing thousands of people by placing hundreds of homeless men in an area is just unconscious, degrading and non consecuencial.

Amanda Harlech

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:41:20 -0500

Placing homeless people in neighborhoods that are trying to get in good shape is direct shoot to its heart! Why are this "decision makers" ignoring the progress this neighborhood so hardly makes by just making it totally impossible by imposing a huge population of scum on their streets?!!

IvoryJive

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:31:02 -0500

NIMBY is one thing, but they are pouring gasoline on a fire. This is like telling the community you are adding a waste transfer station to a sewage treatment plant. Put the intake center in a neighborhood that doesn't already have a massive homeless shelter.

starrygordon

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:58:48 -0500

#6 -- they probably don't care for you, either. The place to put the homeless is in one of our better Trendyvilles, like, say, Kent Avenue in Williamsburg. They'll fit right in -- people will just perceive them as very advanced hipsters and thus feel free to hate them without guilt. And as Art Spiegelman asked, in one of his books, "Can't we just hate each other in peace?" I think that's really the key to everything.

Billiamsburg

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:25:16 -0500

i dont care for the homeless.

JacqueMehoff

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:07:28 -0500

I'm surprised there's still a men's shelter at Bellevue, I thought this mayor would want to move all the undesirables to the outer boroughs. that and to make it as inconvenient as possible to get services. but it is one of the larger shelters. too bad they blew it with selling off Camp laguardia. ain't nothing going on but the rent.

eyekantspel

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:50:42 -0500

I can't say I blame the NIMBY crowd. What rational person would want this located in their backyard?

Rfive

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:47:23 -0500

The Bedford Armory is a grand building, one of the finer structures in nyc. it is a shame that the city chooses to disrespect this building and the neighboring community in the way that it does and seeks to do in the future.

edEx

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:29:31 -0500

i hear the real estate in east new york is looking mighty good these days ;P

zodak

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:08:10 -0500

"we should do something about the homeless problem as long as it's NIMBY."