The shelter plan is officially dead. This win belongs to everyone in Rockaway who refused to back down. We stay vigilant.
March 24, 2019
Final supporters
The Rockaway community has endured decades of struggle with an unresponsive city government. It is a well documented fact that this peninsula has absorbed more than its fair share of adult homes, half-way houses, drug-treatment centers, homes for troubled adolescents and other government subsidized programs.
At the same time, we have lost a vital hospital resource, major stretches of oceanfront land sit in decay, funds to replenish beach sand are nowhere to be found and we have a severe problem with struggling schools.
As a resilient and compassionate community, the integration of countless city programs into our neighborhoods has run parallel to the ongoing efforts to revitalize this isolated community devastated by Hurricane Sandy. At times however, it seems that we are not only fighting the tides of the Atlantic, but the continuous flow of severely burdensome programs from City Hall as well.
Without consultation or open discussion, the Mayor and the Department of Homeless Services has suddenly seen fit to collaborate with a private (for-profit) landlord to open a homeless shelter planned to house over one hundred adult males within short walking distance of several schools. Furthermore, the proposed supervising organization has a history of housing those individuals deemed too difficult to house in other sites around the city.
The Department of Homeless Services somehow believes that warehousing homeless individuals within a community well over an hour's commute from Manhattan, with a much higher than average unemployment rate and with very limited medical resources, will be the best way to re-integrate these men into society.
For some reason, Rockaway has become the go-to solution for the city's problems, and once again, we are at odds with a city government which will close one vital resource (our beaches) overnight while opening a large homeless shelter just as quickly, all without any community consent! We've had no discussion or presentations at our Community Board and our elected representatives are equally surprised about these plans.
Perhaps working together as a community, we can petition this administration to actually listen to the residents, homeowners and business owners who will be living with the government's decisions.
Please sign our petition to stop plans for a homeless shelter at 226 Beach 101st Street in Rockaway Beach and to STOP DUMPING ON ROCKAWAY!
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
February 19, 2019
Reached 100 supporters
February 18, 2019
February 17, 2019
We are approaching the one thousand mark. Keep pushing to get us over the top today.
659 Comments
Placing any homeless shelter on the Rockaway Peninsula is stupidity!! There are no jobs or adequate assistance for these individuals. PLUS it shows how NYC uses the peninsula as a dumping ground!! And keeps them out of Manhattan so the tourists don' t see them!
Using Rockaway as a dumping ground has to stop. How can this Warehouse be turned over so quickly when it has taken tax paying Rockaway residents over 6 years to move back into their own homes after Sandy! The DHS and developer need to be audited.
Give Rockaway a chance to rebuild. We have a large amount of in need people on the peninsula already. We do our fair share of support. Now the city should respect that and stop dumping people on the peninsula with poor transportation and few jobs.
Putting this shelter here is going to be a disaster there 4 schools surrounding the shelter and add 96 men that are going to be wandering the neighborhood all day with nothing to do would anyone be comfortable with there children being in this scenario
How can the NYC estimate our houses are worth 1 - 2million dollars if there is a homeless shelter next door. Tell the Mayor he can’t have it both ways. Putting a homeless shelter in neighborhood with so many children is a recipie for disaster.
this peninsula has absorbed more than its fair share of adult homes, half-way houses, drug-treatment centers, homes for troubled adolescents and other government subsidized programs. At the same time, we have lost a vital hospital resource, major stretches of oceanfront land sit in decay, funds to replenish beach sand are nowhere to be found and we have a severe problem with struggling schools.
Try Manhattan!
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The shelter plan is officially dead. This win belongs to everyone in Rockaway who refused to back down. We stay vigilant.
March 24, 2019
Final supporters
The Rockaway community has endured decades of struggle with an unresponsive city government. It is a well documented fact that this peninsula has absorbed more than its fair share of adult homes, half-way houses, drug-treatment centers, homes for troubled adolescents and other government subsidized programs.
At the same time, we have lost a vital hospital resource, major stretches of oceanfront land sit in decay, funds to replenish beach sand are nowhere to be found and we have a severe problem with struggling schools.
As a resilient and compassionate community, the integration of countless city programs into our neighborhoods has run parallel to the ongoing efforts to revitalize this isolated community devastated by Hurricane Sandy. At times however, it seems that we are not only fighting the tides of the Atlantic, but the continuous flow of severely burdensome programs from City Hall as well.
Without consultation or open discussion, the Mayor and the Department of Homeless Services has suddenly seen fit to collaborate with a private (for-profit) landlord to open a homeless shelter planned to house over one hundred adult males within short walking distance of several schools. Furthermore, the proposed supervising organization has a history of housing those individuals deemed too difficult to house in other sites around the city.
The Department of Homeless Services somehow believes that warehousing homeless individuals within a community well over an hour's commute from Manhattan, with a much higher than average unemployment rate and with very limited medical resources, will be the best way to re-integrate these men into society.
For some reason, Rockaway has become the go-to solution for the city's problems, and once again, we are at odds with a city government which will close one vital resource (our beaches) overnight while opening a large homeless shelter just as quickly, all without any community consent! We've had no discussion or presentations at our Community Board and our elected representatives are equally surprised about these plans.
Perhaps working together as a community, we can petition this administration to actually listen to the residents, homeowners and business owners who will be living with the government's decisions.
Please sign our petition to stop plans for a homeless shelter at 226 Beach 101st Street in Rockaway Beach and to STOP DUMPING ON ROCKAWAY!
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
February 19, 2019
Reached 100 supporters
February 18, 2019
February 17, 2019
We are approaching the one thousand mark. Keep pushing to get us over the top today.
659 Comments
Humans like to work as part of their DNA. It feeds their self respect. The best location for integrating adult humans is where there is work opportunities. Work and access to work is more easily accessible inside the 5 boros not out on the penisula.
Placing any homeless shelter on the Rockaway Peninsula is stupidity!! There are no jobs or adequate assistance for these individuals. PLUS it shows how NYC uses the peninsula as a dumping ground!! And keeps them out of Manhattan so the tourists don' t see them!
Using Rockaway as a dumping ground has to stop. How can this Warehouse be turned over so quickly when it has taken tax paying Rockaway residents over 6 years to move back into their own homes after Sandy! The DHS and developer need to be audited.
Give Rockaway a chance to rebuild. We have a large amount of in need people on the peninsula already. We do our fair share of support. Now the city should respect that and stop dumping people on the peninsula with poor transportation and few jobs.
Putting this shelter here is going to be a disaster there 4 schools surrounding the shelter and add 96 men that are going to be wandering the neighborhood all day with nothing to do would anyone be comfortable with there children being in this scenario
How can the NYC estimate our houses are worth 1 - 2million dollars if there is a homeless shelter next door. Tell the Mayor he can’t have it both ways. Putting a homeless shelter in neighborhood with so many children is a recipie for disaster.
this peninsula has absorbed more than its fair share of adult homes, half-way houses, drug-treatment centers, homes for troubled adolescents and other government subsidized programs. At the same time, we have lost a vital hospital resource, major stretches of oceanfront land sit in decay, funds to replenish beach sand are nowhere to be found and we have a severe problem with struggling schools.
Try Manhattan!
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Humans like to work as part of their DNA. It feeds their self respect. The best location for integrating adult humans is where there is work opportunities. Work and access to work is more easily accessible inside the 5 boros not out on the penisula.