Comments on: We Need an Emergency Town Hall Meeting in Crown Heights

By: To The Rescue!

To The Rescue! — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:51:10 +0000

The Problem:
-A new homeless shelter is planned in the Kingsboro Psychiatric Center in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
-This plan allocates many housing units to homeless and mentally ill people.
-This makes the area dangerous and filthy.

The Solution:
This is a call to community council members and politicians to stop or modify the plans to keep the place safe.

Call To Action:
This letter is addressed to those to whom it may concern, meaning, if you understood the letter, you should probably stop reading this and call for a meeting with Letisha James.
If you didn’t understand, like me, it’s not something you need to add to your erev shabbos list.

Summary:
No to homeless shelters in East Flatbush. Leaders must get their act together now.

By: AH

AH — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 13:55:43 +0000

In reply to Important!. Convince Letitia that Trump is behind it. That’ll be the only way to get her attention, as she’s decided that the purpose of her office is for political persecutions, not for actually enforcing the law.

By: Summary

Summary — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 04:59:33 +0000

1) A notorious 364 bed home shelter containing offenders, which leased the premises from NYC, now will get to own the land and be there permanently except with no more gated perimeter. This is an even bigger problem because PA Jumaane Williams new NYC law allows the homeless to sleep outside and not be subject to a curfew
2) There are 326 supportive housing units for other groups of homeless individuals
3) Thirty percent of the 337 senior units = 101 units which will be formerly homeless which means could be coming from the shelter
4) Conservatively figuring each unit only has one bed, you get 364 shelter beds, plus 326 senior beds plus 101 senior formerly homes beds = at least 791 beds which is almost eight 100 bed shelters at 681 Clarkson
5) Across the street going west at the SW corner of Albany & Clarkson in the relatively new brick buildings already is 328 more supportive units…
6) at 781 Clarkson is a 110 bed shelter
7) So my point of the article was to stop Clarkson Ave from becoming the Homeless Heights section of East Flatbush
8) and out of 1090 new total rentals….there is zero parking sports…..
9) many CH community activists are unfortunately political and my goal was to ask for a Town Hall whereby the CHJCC would tell AG Tish James who has to sign off on the project that said project should be modified to include more individuals who are Intellectually Developmentally Disabled, Alzeimers or Disabled Military persons, since there is a need in the community, and there would be less safety issues.
10) So I sit here writing from Long Island and knowing CH real estate millionaires will sit down to break bread in two months at the Jewish Childrens Museum smiling with AG Letisha James oblivious that East Flatbush mothers are taking Ubers instead of walking at night by the shelters. The homeless population will double. There wont be curfews. and there wont be a completely gated tall iron perimeter fence like before.

Your leaders will tell you they did not fight for you because they could not win. But did they even try ?
Question: What did they have to lose?
Answer: Their political favors from keeping the $450 million dollar project quiet and moving along.

Jay Sorid
Merrick, Long Island

By: I'm with you

I'm with you — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 04:36:06 +0000

In reply to Anonymous.

To much information.
Please just tell us bullet point style what we can do
* Call John Doe, title, at 718-***-****
* Email Jane Doe, title, at …
* Sign petition on www. ….
Etc
Thank you

By: Important!

Important! — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 01:03:13 +0000

I believe the article is saying that a thousand homeless are coming to CH endangering our community. Bottom line, we need to make a community joint statement to AG Letita James that we want to change it from homes for homeless to homes for special needs etc. Thank you Jay for your selfless work!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:27:47 +0000

This seems important and I want to understand what’s being said. But there’s a lot of information and links and terms that I simply don’t know what they mean. It’s very hard to understand what’s really being said.
Maybe there could be a more simplified version for people like myself?