Crown Heights, NY – According to New York State’s online registry, there are 27 Level 3 offenders living at the city-run Bedford-Atlantic Armory in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, or directly across the street at a second homeless facility run by a nonprofit using funds from the Department of Homeless Services.
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A Level 3 designation is reserved for New York’s most violent rapists and pedophiles, men who have done vile, unspeakable things to women and children. They are among the hundreds living at the twin shelters who end up wandering the streets of Crown Heights because they are ordered out of the shelter each morning with nothing constructive to do.
That is how DHS currently puts families at risk every day, just as they have for more than 25 years since the armory was converted into one of the worst-run shelters in the city.
And that is why it’s outrageous that DHS recently announced plans to bring thousands more homeless men to the same overburdened neighborhood by relocating New York’s central intake center for single homeless men from Bellevue Hospital in midtown Manhattan to the Brooklyn armory.
Mayor Bloomberg’s administration, which sprung this shameful plan on Brooklyn without warning – not even Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, a loyal Bloomberg ally, got a heads-up – has managed to do what many thought was impossible: unite the diverse, often bickering voices of Crown Heights into a unanimous roar.
Young and old, black and Jewish, rich and poor will all be on hand for a rally against the plan at 12:30 p.m. this Sunday right near the scene of the crime, the corner of Bedford and Atlantic Aves. Rally details are at revitalizecrownheights.org
Everyone must attend!
“right near the scene of the crime”
this place is between CH and Williamsberg. So it affects both communities.
This is where to invest a little bit of effort ….THIS IS SERIOUS!!!