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Residents Ask City for Help Addressing Quality of Life Issues After Hotel Shelters Pop Up in Sunset Park

The Glo Hotel on 850 4th Avenue is one of several Sunset Park hotels being used as homeless shelters. (Image: Bklyner reader)Sunset Park residents say a confluence of hotel shelters in the northern part of their neighborhood has led to public safety and quality-of-life concerns, and they’re asking

Education

New Schools Data Shows Large Attendance Disparities for Students in Shelter and English Language Learners

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter at Phyl’s Academy in Brooklyn on March 23, 2021. (Image: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) New York City students living in shelters missed an average of nearly one of every four school days this January, a rate far worse than

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Controversial Neptune Ave Shelter Site To Get Both New Owner And New Provider

100 Neptune Avenue in Brighton Beach, the site of a planned 170-bed shelter. (Image from Google Maps)A well-known service provider slated to oversee a controversial planned homeless shelter in Brighton Beach has been abruptly dropped by the site’s incoming owner, raising questions about the shelter’s future. CORE

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Brooklyn Man Charged in 52-Count Indictment, Including Hate Crime For Attacking Light Skinned Women In Williamsburg

Police outside the Morgan Ave station. Anna Conkling/BklynerBrooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced yesterday that Khari Covington, 29, who resides in an East Williamsburg shelter, has been indicted on numerous charges of assault, strangulation, and burglary as hate crimes and other charges for allegedly attacking seven women in East

Education

Council Member Treyger and City Bar Association Call on City to Speed Up Shelter Wifi Installation

Council Member Mark TreygerThe city needs to pick up the pace when it comes to installing wifi in homeless shelters, argue the City Council’s education chair and the head of the NYC Bar Association. In a joint letter sent yesterday [https://mcusercontent.com/6fe866f4b5e485eb450be1baa/files/ef767369-5a53-4cbe-a6db-3ed31c79bd38/2020806_Wifi4Homeless_DOE_

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City Plans to Open Homeless Shelter on Bath Avenue

The city plans to open a homeless shelter at 2147 Bath Avenue to provide temporary shelter for 150 single men in the area by the end of this year. NYC Tax Photo.“I have learned that there was no proposal presented to Community Board 11 and there has been no

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At Community Board Meeting, Residents, Elected Officials and Candidates Slam Proposed Brighton Beach Shelter

Attendees at a virtual Community Board 13 meeting on Wednesday voiced opposition to a planned shelter at 100 Neptune Avenue.Over 300 people joined a virtual community meeting Wednesday night to discuss a planned Brighton Beach shelter; seemingly all of them left unsatisfied. At the two-hour virtual meeting, which was

Central Brooklyn

Community Group Looks to Halt Demolition of Flatbush Bank Building

The Flatbush Savings Bank Building in November 2020. (Image: Liena Zagare/Bklyner)An activist group is asking the city to landmark a Flatbush Avenue Bank before its owners demolish it to construct a new, mixed-use building in its place. In a letter sent [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MvnMHWbb-qwF6ygvZLIUe7X-fTSh--s1/

Central Brooklyn

Local Electeds Push Back on Planned Family Shelter At Former Brooklyn College Dorm

1 Kenilworth Place. Joe Strini /PropertySharkA group of Flatbush-area elected officials is pushing back on the city’s plans to open a homeless shelter at the site of a recently-closed student housing facility near Brooklyn College. The city’s Department of Social Services (DSS) is looking to retrofit the former

Coney Island

City Plans New Shelter in Brighton Beach, But Siting and Management Raise Local Concerns

100 Neptune Avenue in Brighton Beach, the site of a planned 170-bed shelter. (Image from Google Maps)The city is looking to build a new homeless shelter at 100 Neptune Avenue in Brighton Beach. But some locals have concerns about the nonprofit set to run the facility, as well as

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Sunset Park Hotel Latest To Turn To Providing Shelter For Homeless People

Glo Hotel is located at 850 4th Avenue. Photo by a reader.All of the signs that Glo Hotel is a hotel have been covered up, and it looks like the Best Western chain hotel is now providing emergency housing services to the City of New York. Glo Hotel is

Central Brooklyn

Precious Dreams Foundation Brings Comfort To Brooklyn’s Homeless Youth

Precious Dreams Foundation founder Nicole Russell visiting with kids pre-pandemic. Courtesy of Precious Dreams Foundation.COVID-19 has been rough for kids living in homeless shelters, Nicole Russell explained, especially those who had grown accustomed to receiving in-person visits from groups like Precious Dreams Foundation [https://www.preciousdreamsfoundation.org/about-us/], which

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One Fourth Avenue Family Homeless Shelter Is Open; Other To Open In The Fall

535 4th Avenue & 555 4th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)PARK SLOPE – After much delay and controversy, one of the two large family homeless shelters announced for 4th Avenue, the Shirley Chisholm Family Residence at 535 4th Avenue, officially opened its doors last month. The other is expected to open

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Pandemic-Emptied Hotels Could Become Affordable Housing, City Officials Suggest

928 Coney Island Avenue was built as a hotel. Will it open as a homeless shelter? Liena Zagare/BklynerBy Yoav Gonen, This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/housing/2020/6/25/21303923/hotels-could-become-affordable-housing-in-nyc] in THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] City officials are looking to capitalize on

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Brownsville Families Are Most Vulnerable to Housing Instability in the City

Riverdale and Rockaway Avenues in Brownsville. Via Google Maps.BROWNSVILLE — Families in Brownsville enter homeless shelters at a rate much higher than other parts of New York City, according to a new report. The Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness (ICPH), a New York City policy research organization, released the

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Brooklyn Artist Will Throw Holiday Party for the Homeless

Keisha Martin (third from left) with fellow nonprofit colleagues and some of the shelter’s clients. Courtesy of Keisha Martin.EAST NEW YORK — As the winter cold sets in, Keisha Martin is determined to share the holiday cheer not just with her loved ones but with those who need it

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Here’s Where to Donate Coats in Brooklyn this Winter

BROOKLYN — As the temperature drops consider helping a fellow New Yorker out with a winter coat. You can donate a new one or lightly used one at one many Brooklyn drop-off locations. Don’t have time? You can also donate $20 [https://coatdrive2019.funraise.org/] to provide a coat for

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Former DHS Employee Convicted Of Sexual Abuse

Clyde Johnson.FORT GREENE – He was supposed to help them, instead he groped them. Clyde Johnson, 56, had been working at the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) as a community coordinator and housing specialist since July of 2015. Today he was convicted of forcibly touching and sexually abusing three residents

Bushwick

Social Service Centers Coming to New Bushwick Location Across the Luxury Rheingold Development

New HRA center in Bushwick. Irina Groushevaia/Bklyner.BUSHWICK — A former industrial space in Bushwick has been revamped into a modern development, now housing a new multi-service Human Resources Administration (HRA) Center at 95 Evergreen Avenue (with an entrance at 2 George Street for clients), off the JMZ stop on

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New Men’s Shelter Opening Next Year On Sackett Street In Gowanus

GOWANUS – A new homeless shelter for single men is coming to Gowanus. 601 Sackett Street (Pamela Wong/Bklyner)The 200-bed men’s shelter is slated to open at 601 Sackett Street, between 3rd and 4th Avenues, in 2020 and will be operated by Fedcap [https://www.fedcap.org], a non-profit

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Why Exactly Is The New 3rd Avenue Shelter Half As Expensive As Those On 4th?

GOWANUS – Officials at a lightly attended Wednesday night meeting about the new homeless shelter at 399 3rd Avenue cited a city rule preventing them from discussing ongoing procurement negotiations in order to dismiss questions about the cost disparity between the 3rd Ave shelter, operated by Praxis Housing Initiatives [https://www.

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City Behind On Plan To Open New Shelters

Homelessness is at an all-time high in the city, and the city is behind on its plan to build shelters, The City news site found [https://thecity.nyc/2019/08/halfway-into-homeless-revamp-work-lags-as-hotel-use-grows.html] . The plan, called “Turning the Tide” [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dhs/downloads/pdf/turning-the-tide-on-homelessness.pdf] promised to

Central Brooklyn

Homeless Shelter on Coney Island Avenue Open

Homeless shelter at 566 Coney Island Avenue opened at the end of July / early August serving 139 single men. Liena Zagare/BklynerKENSINGTON/DITMAS PARK – The homeless shelter for 139 men [/ditmas-parks-homeless-shelter-update/] quietly opened at the end of July after extensive renovations to the old Park Manor adult home buildings. The

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Shelter For Adult Families Coming To Gowanus This Fall

Gowanus Adult Family Shelter will open at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 6th Street in Fall of 2019 in what was planned as a hotel. Liena Zagare/Bklyner GOWANUS – The city is planning to site a homeless shelter in Gowanus, Bklyner has learned. Officials will be holding a public

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Community Board 7 Holds Meeting On 4th Avenue Homeless Shelters

PARK SLOPE – Officials took a grilling from Park Slope residents at a Community Board 7 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb7/index.page] meeting Tuesday regarding two homeless shelters planned for 4th Avenue [/city-will-pay-over-261m-for-two-4th-avenue-family-shelters/]. Christine Quinn at the Community Board 7 meeting on the two planned 4th Avenue shelters (Photo: