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Lackluster Defense of Ft. Greene Shelter Conditions
Last night Community Board 2′s Health, Environment and Social Services Committee held a meeting with the Department of Homeless Services concerning the Auburn Family Shelter, the facility in the...
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Pushback on Planned Carroll Gardens Shelter
Regarding the plans revealed last week to locate a homeless shelter at 165 West 9th Street in Carroll Gardens, local residents have posted a petition on change.org asking for the chance to meet with...
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Meeting on Shelter Tonight, More Disturbing Revelations
Community Board Six is holding an information session tonight about the proposed homeless shelter at 165 West 9th Street in Carroll Gardens. Attending will be the Department of Homeless Services,...
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Pols, Angry Residents Confront Homeless-Shelter Execs
An overflow crowd of more than 300 people and local politicians packed a school auditorium in Carroll Gardens last night to hear from and question officials about the proposed homeless shelter at 165...
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Breaking: Court Blocks Carroll Gardens Homeless Shelter
The New York Supreme Court has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the use of 165 West 9th Street in violation of civil or state codes, according to the Coalition for Carroll Gardens. The...
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Fresh Intrigue Over Carroll Gardens Homeless Shelter
The City’s Department of Homeless Services and the Coalition for Carroll Gardens are fighting over whether or not a temporary restraining order was issued concerning the proposed homeless shelter at...
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Carroll Gardens Residents Ask Liu to Stop Shelter
The Coalition for Carroll Gardens continues to fight the plan to convert the apartment building at 165 West 9th Street into a homeless shelter. According to a press release, there are only a few days...
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Carroll Gardens Shelter Owner Makes a Mint off Homeless
According to a story in The New York Times on Friday, the city pays landlords a remarkable sum of money to house homeless people. And one of the major beneficiaries has been Alan Lapes who has been...
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Greenpointers Object to Sex Offenders in Shelter
A controversial homeless shelter at 400 McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint has upset residents again with the disclosure it is now housing sex offenders, The New York Daily News reported. After years...
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DOB Audits Controversial Proposed Homeless Shelter
The Department of Building intends to revoke the permit it issued in March to allow the owner of 165 West 9th Street to convert the 10-unit apartment building for use as a homeless shelter for 170...
View ArticleLandlords Evicting Paying Tenants to Make Room for Homeless
The owner or this building at 60 Clarkson Avenue in Flatbush is doing his best to get rid of his paying tenants. No, the building is not going to be converted to condos or torn down for new...
View ArticleClosing Bell: Brad Lander to Give Update on Controversial Homeless Shelter...
Councilman Brad Lander and the Coalition for Carroll Gardens will answer questions and provide updates on the controversial proposed homeless shelter at 165 West 9th Street in Carroll Gardens at a...
View ArticleClosing Bell: C of O Change, Hearing for Controversial Homeless Shelter
City Councilman Brad Lander and seven other Carroll Gardens residents, including developers and architects, testified against the proposed contract with Aguila Inc. to run a homeless shelter in Carroll...
View ArticleInside a Fort Greene Homeless Shelter
In a five-part series, The New York Times followed an 11-year-old girl living with six siblings and her parents in a homeless shelter in Fort Greene. The story contrasts the appalling conditions at the...
View ArticleMayor Removing Children From Fort Greene Shelter Following Times Expose
The city has begun removing children from the Auburn shelter in Fort Greene that was the subject of a Times expose in December, The New York Times reported. The move revealed that de Blasio is planning...
View ArticleProposed Carroll Gardens Homeless Shelter in Limbo Following Vacate Order
The problem-plagued building designed by architect Robert Scarano at 165 West 9th Street in Carroll Gardens is still empty and its future uncertain. The last we reported on the matter, back in October,...
View ArticleShocking Conditions in Brooklyn Homeless Shelters, City Investigation Finds
As rising rents push more people out into the streets, a scathing report on the city’s homeless shelters in Brooklyn and beyond has found they are dangerous to residents — sometimes life-threatening....
View ArticleSunset Park Residents Upset Over Under-the-Radar Homeless Shelter
Sunset Park residents are upset over a homeless shelter that is allegedly operating out of a Sleep Inn Hotel in the area, apparently without any formal notice to the community. This letter from a...
View ArticleCity Confirms Sunset Park’s Sleep Inn Will Be Turned Into Homeless Shelter
The Department of Homeless Services has confirmed Sunset Park’s Sleep Inn is being converted into a 150-man homeless shelter. DHS made the announcement Monday, following Brownstoner’s publication of a...
View ArticleFire-Wrecked Greenpoint Warehouse to Become Amenity-Rich 155-Key Hotel
Greenpoint’s former “Forgotten City” has been remembered by longtime deed holders Jack and Joshua Guttman of Pearl Realty Management. The father-son development team filed permits Wednesday with the...
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