The Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council
Council Member Letitia James; Council Member Al Vann; Council Member Bill de Blasio; State Senator Eric Adams; State Senator Velmanette Montgomery; Assemblymember Hakeem Jeffries; Assemblymember Karim Camara; along with community groups including the Crown Heights Revitalization Movement; the Crown Heights North Association; and the Crow Hill Community Association; as well as neighborhood residents and advocates for the homeless will gather for a press conference on the Steps of City Hall, to oppose the Department of Homeless Services’ (DHS) plan to move the men’s homeless intake center from Manhattan to the Bedford-Atlantic Armory Homeless Shelter in Brooklyn.
Elected officials at press conference will announce that a law firm has been retained to stop the men’s homeless central intake center move - this Sunday, March 8th at 2 pm, on Steps of City Hall.
This press event is in support of homeless individuals, and the community. Please join local elected officials and community organizations to fight this misguided plan that will not benefit the City’s male homeless population (nearly 60% reside in Manhattan), and will harm an overburdened community. Manhattan has the highest concentration of street homelessness of all five boroughs, and since the late 1970s, the City of New York has always maintained an intake center for homeless men in Manhattan.
By moving the central intake center to Crown Heights, Brooklyn -- an area with limited public transportation options -- DHS is essentially moving the front door to the shelter system farther away from those who need it most. This plan will significantly decrease access to shelter for homeless men throughout the City. Also, the Bloomberg Administration has not kept its pledge to create intake sites for homeless men in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
For more information, contact Amyre Loomis at (718) 260-9191 or (646) 201-8183.
The December 2008 PHNDC general meeting will be open to the public so community members interested in finding out more about PHNDC's current projects will have an opportunity to hear updates and ask questions.
The agenda will be as follows:
The 77th Precinct Community Council serves as a liaison between the police of the 77th Precinct and the residents and business people of Brooklyn Community District 8 (which includes all of Prospect Heights).
Meetings of the Precinct Community Council give residents an opportunity to hear about safety and security issues in their neighborhoods, as well as raise concerns to the Precinct command.
The October 2008 PHNDC general meeting will be open to the public so community members interested in finding out more about PHNDC's current projects will have an opportunity to hear updates and ask questions.
The agenda will be as follows:
The general meeting of Community Board 8 includes reports from all committees, including:
The general meeting of Community Board 8 includes reports from all committees, including:
