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A collection of 15 issues

Residents Question Status Of 24th Street Hotel Currently Housing Homeless Families

A building listed as a Howard Johnson Hotel located at 235 24th Street. (Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)A four-story building completed in 2015 at 235 24th Street (near 4th Avenue) has nearby residents confused about whether the building will function as a Howard Johnson hotel property or a city

Residents Question Status Of 24th Street Hotel Currently Housing Homeless Families

A building listed as a Howard Johnson Hotel located at 235 24th Street. (Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)A four-story building completed in 2015 at 235 24th Street (near 4th Avenue) has nearby residents confused about whether the building will function as a Howard Johnson hotel property or a city

Locals Protest The Opening Of A Homeless Shelter On McDonald Avenue

Photo by Shannon Geis/KensingtonBKRoughly one hundred local residents lined up along the fence outside 385 McDonald Avenue Monday evening to protest the homeless shelter that DHS is opening in the space [/neighbors/council-member-lander-to-host-community-meeting-on-homeless-shelter/] . Many held signs with messages including “We’re Not Against A Homeless Shelter But It’s

Landlord Sends Eviction Notices To Former Shelter Residents The Day Before Thanksgiving

60 Clarkson Avenue. (Photo via Google Maps)A number of residents at 60 Clarkson Avenue, all of them former shelter residents, received eviction notices the day before Thanksgiving, according to Gothamist [http://gothamist.com/2015/12/03/barry_hers_landlord_eviction.php]. The building was contracted as a homeless shelter

Help NYC’s Homeless January 27 By Volunteering With The HOPE Survey

Every year, the Department of Homeless Services [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dhs/html/home/home.shtml] conducts the Homeless Population Outreach Estimate [https://a071-hope.nyc.gov/hope/welcome.aspx], or HOPE. Over the course of just one night, HOPE sends out 3,000 volunteers to gather critical information about