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‘WE ARE NOT OK WITH THIS’
Park Slope residents create petition to protest planned family shelters
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BY COLIN MIXSON
More than 200 people have
signed a petition protesting
the city’s plan to open homeless
shelters at two neighboring
Park Slope developments,
hoping to rally enough community
opposition to persuade the
city to call off the shelter plan
before fi nalizing its agreement
with the properties’ owner.
“The whole idea is to be able
to rally enough people to say
we are not okay with this decision
and that we should reconsider
it,” said Shruti Kapoor,
who published the petition on
Change.org Sunday on behalf
of residents in her Fourth Avenue
condominium, who have
banded together as the Fourth
Avenue Committee.
The city announced its plan
earlier this month to open shelters
in the fall at neighboring
properties being built at 535
and 555 Fourth Ave., which
would feature a combined 253
units, and offer childcare services,
along with programs
designed to help New Yorkers
— predominantly women and
children — fi nd permanent
housing.
At a public meeting hosted
by Park Slope Councilman
Brad Lander on May 1, the legislator
told locals that the city
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