New Crown Heights Homeless Shelter Will Be Subject Of Another Public Meeting

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Crown Heights residents will have another chance to share their thoughts on a homeless shelter planned for the neighborhood.

Community Board 8 is hosting the informational meeting, which will include representatives from the city's Department of Homeless Services, the Department of Social Services, Core Services, NYPD and local elected officials.

The meeting, which will be the second on the planned shelter at 1173 Bergen St., will take place at 6:30 p.m. at Uncommon Charter School.

The shelter is one of three planned within a mile radius in the Crown Heights and Prospect Heights neighborhoods. The other two are planned for 265 Rogers Ave. in Crown Heights and 174 Prospect Place — the Phoenix House — in Prospect Heights.

The shelters are three of 90 that will open over the next five years under a plan announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio. These three, though, could all be open by mid-March.

The Bergen Street shelter, which will be serviced by the nonprofit CORE and will host employed, single men who are employed and/or 50 years old and above, is scheduled to open March 22.

Residents expressed deep opposition to the shelter in the first meeting about it Saturday.

“You have children who are walking home and who go home by themselves, who take home their siblings by themselves. We already have the men’s shelter over here on Bedford and Pacific,” one mother said, according to DNA Info. “It’s not right. It’s not fair.”

Click here to read DNA Info's full report from that meeting.

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