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Stop Dumping On Rockaway

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Dina Tammaro
7 years ago

There are too many children in this area we don’t need a homeless shelter move It To park slope

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Virginia Pokart
7 years ago

Altouugh I no longer live in Rockaway, I still have ties to the community through family and long term, some lifetime, friends, many with young children. Rockaway has struggled for years to get to the point it's at now. Hurricane Sandy laid us bare, but we beat the bitch, and came back ROCKAWAY STRONG!!! Please do not render our efforts to better our community, in spite of almost unbeatable odds, to again housing this homeless criminal element. We deserve better....Stop this shelter from being put in Rockaway...please!

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Anonymous
7 years ago

While I am a major supporter of providing services to those in need and helping them reintegrate into the community, for-profit homeless shelters have limited success rates, particularly when placed in communities that do not have the resources or available jobs to support that process. Rockaway is a community that has had more than its fair share of ill-fated programs and is a community in which it makes little sense to open a new shelter due to limited local job availability, limited medical resources, and difficult commuting logistics for those seeking jobs outside of the local community.

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David Graves
7 years ago

Give Rockaway a break. We already have enough homeless and mentally ill being housed here. Please find somewhere more suitable to place a homeless shelter.

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Charlie Mcloughlin
7 years ago

Maybe this shelter should be around 12st in Park Slope.oh silly me that’s de blasios block

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Ellen Collins
7 years ago

Please stop dumping on Rockaway!

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David ishay
7 years ago

We stand together as a community!

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Kristin Kearns
7 years ago

Stop dumping on us!

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Lillian ishay
7 years ago

This will no more be a quiet and dumped upon community. We will not tolerate any more redlining!

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Henry Teach
7 years ago

We have more than share: https://nyti.ms/RZYURQ?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Donna Long
7 years ago

STOP DUMPING CRAP IN ROCKAWAY!!

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Joe Esposito
7 years ago

It will ruin a beautiful safe neighbor hood

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Gail AG
7 years ago

STOP!!!

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Robert Ostrander
7 years ago

Rockaway has more then its share of shelters

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Rosemarie cannone
7 years ago

Stop making Rockaway a dumping ground

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James OSullivan
7 years ago

I belive homeless are the responsibility of the Zip Code from where they came.

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Rosemarie Rowe-leichter
7 years ago

Enough!

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Finnian Sullivan
7 years ago

I am a middle school student who attends one of the schools that is 3 blocks away from where this shelter is proposed. During the nice weather I can cycle my bike to school. I will no longer be able to do this if this shelter opens with these homeless men. This is my home and my community that I love being a part of. It’s not fair on my fellow students who already deal with panhandlers, mentally ill and homeless people around our neighborhood. This is my home town and it’s being destroyed. We can not allow this! We will fight this! As a community!

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Anonymous
7 years ago

This is the worst thing to happen in this community!

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Sara Buckley
7 years ago

needs to be in an industrial area not near 3 schools