Last week, a united group of Crown Heights activists attended the Brooklyn Community Board 9 (CB9) ‘land use’ meeting at the community board’s Nostrand Avenue office to fight against and oppose the ‘Mega’ Homeless Shelter, which our local elected officials are attempting to force into the neighborhood.

Leading the advocacy for the Crown Heights Jewish community and the neighborhood at large, were: NYS Assembly candidate (District 43) Ahron Gluck, community board 9 member Benny Rosenberger, advocate Jay Sorid, as well as a united group of concerned community activists from the Lubavitcher and African American community.

While opposition to the ‘mega’ homeless shelter is a community-wide issue, with fears that our neighborhood, which is already filled with Homeless shelters, will be flooded many times over with thousands more of emotionally and mentally unstable criminals. Assemblyman Brian Cunningham, who unapologetically 100% supports the creation of the ‘Mega’ Homeless shelter, did not send any representative to attend this important meeting to hear the community feedback.

Ahron Gluck, who is running for NYS Assembly, voiced opposition and concerns against the Homeless shelter and is committed to working with Brooklyn Community Board 9 to see what can be done to permanently stop the homeless shelter or relocate it away from our neighborhood.

An African American woman from the district voiced concern that Assembly member Cunningham is directly supporting the homeless shelter with legislation and funding, because he gets donations from the “lobbyists,” while abandoning his black and brown constituents, which are an overwhelmingly majority of the residents living near Clarkson Ave, that suffer from the daily crime committed by those residing in the nearly dozen homeless shelters currently near Kings County Hospital in Crown Heights and East Flatbush.

Recently, the Vaad Hakohol sent a letter to city representatives questioning why the city council bypassed a mandatory obligation, subject to the property sale, which could have put a halt to the project, and refused a community public hearing on the ‘Mega’ homeless shelter without hearing input from the district’s residents.

For Crown Heights and East Flatbush residents to vote for a member of anash, Ahron Gluck, in this year’s Democratic primary election, so he can try to stop the homeless shelter, you must be registered as a Democrat:
https://e-register.vote.nyc/