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Signatures | Total: 323

 

# NameComments
101 Carmen E. Riverait seems to be that everything gets dumped on this community. Are they worth less than any other community. Thanks goodness they are fighters!
102 Kathleen Mulvihill
103 Gabriela Langone
104 gina arnone
105 Karen L. ZanelliThe North Shore has more than its fair share of facilities for the mentally ill perhaps it is time for the rest of the island to share the burden.
106 krista bonanno
107 DB Lampman
108 AnonymousKeep our children safe!
109 Lisa Cuevas
110 George Cuevas
111 Jerry Aptaker
112 Anonymous
113 Patricia Breen
114 RON BROWN
115 Charels Mayle
116 John Truzzolino
117 Alan C. Myers
118 Keri Delmar
119 Anonymousenough is enough. put it somewhere else.
120 Tracy Neenan
121 Jacqueline Anzurez
122 Lisa Solomon
123 Beatrice RamirezI feel strongly that this large scale facility is not appropriate for a primarily residential community. It is also out of line with the mental health community's guidelines for small treatment centers. If it violates zoning regulations that is reason alone to disallow this project. We urge your careful reconsideration of the well-being of the entire community in the light of this ill-conceived proposal. Sincerely, Beatrice Ramirez
124 Anonymous
125 Anonymous
126 Elizabeth and John LaCauseWe wrote the following 3 years ago: St. Vincent’s and the Pauline Sisters will not make us victims of our own good works. What drew us to St. George was its diverse community, reflecting strengths and aspirations of a true melting pot. A community with a social conscience and a charitable nature among its residents is rare and should be respected. Every other block has at least one program for the less fortunate, and as a community we have gone above and beyond our duty as good citizens, with an impressive amount of civic pride, so this brouhaha over the sale of the convent is not part of our nature. The best deal is a deal where all sides benefit. Even so, we have yet to hear how this benefits St. George. The best that St. Vincent’s can come up with are authoritative assurances that this newest community of the mentally ill they propose to plunk down in the middle of our neighborhood, a neighborhood that they know is already over-saturated with the socially challenged, is harmless. As a nonprofit organization, St. Vincent’s holds a public trust, which requires a reflection of deepened social conscience and moral imagination. There is nothing moral or imaginative about this proposal. This is nothing more than a cynical scam born of convenience. This ill-thought plan is not good for us, not good for the patients, and not good for St. Vincent’s. There are no benefits for an area that has more than met its social responsibilities and is now struggling to meet its potential. Having children attending P.S. 16, who walk by the convent like hundreds of other children, twice a day, everyday, we are reminded of the story they loved for us to read about the goose that laid the golden eggs. Old folk tales are classics because they were written as lessons that are as pertinent today as they were hundreds of years ago. Our goose is St. George, it’s about to be cooked, and the very people who have become too greedy are saying we have nothing to lose.
127 NANCY W. MYRON
128 Anne CooneyIt seems extraordinary that a large residential facility would be establised for mental hospital patients and mentally ill released prisoners in such a concentrated area of Staten Island, especially when it violates zonging regulation.
129 Joseph Kubera
130 Maureen McLaughlin
131 Anonymous
132 Jeremy Cooney
133 Rudolph Ripp
134 Anonymous
135 Monica PaquetteThere are a number of social service agencies in neighborhood and a new faciltity of this size and nature would overwhelm the community. Please withdraw approval for this facility.
136 Kathleen McCarthy
137 Lynn Elliott
138 Patrizia VignolaHello!!! Why not start thinking of ways to draw people here not keep them away. The city wants young families to move to this area, yeah this will be a draw for them! If they to bring in young artist types, why not make something more community driven like a rotating studio program or something creative. Whatever, it's just a bad idea all around!
139 Cecilia Flores
140 Andrea LusterI can possibly understand moving these people to an area without a large population, possibly in a more industrial area, but this is ridiculous!
141 Anonymous
142 Nancy Shallman Yourke
143 Cynthia SelmonThis facility is too large and too close to schools. In addition, this community already is home to many social service agencies. The area is saturated.
144 judith kudlessToo Much!!!!!
145 Bernadette ConroyEnough is enough. I have lived on the North Shore for 30 years and we are underserved. St. Vincents abandoned the hospital, unable to make it run financially. How is it going to support this?
146 Anonymous
147 Janine Acosta
148 Charlotte DouglasOur neighborhood has a great many public facilities. It is time other neighborhoods shared the burden.
149 ana arochoenough sick and tired of this people every time they want to build aborder house its always in our neighborhood please stop,
150 Margaret Tritini

 

Signatures | Total: 323