Stop Dumping On Rockaway

We are a compassionate community but can no longer shoulder all the burden.

The Rockaways already shoulders more than its share. There are plenty of other locations that would not be so close to so many school children on this narrow peninsula that should be considered, Credemore is one. The Rockaways is still recovering from Sandy but is nonetheless experiencing a long overdue revival that would be ended by saddling this peninsula with a homeless shelter instead of a desperately needed quality hospital since the closure of Peninsula in 2012. A hospital that should be built in a location that would prevent long travel times to farther away facilities and avoid traffic jams and loss of lives when traveling to hospitals much farther away and off the peninsula. This is the second time in about a year that the City has tried to put a homeless shelter in the Rockaways, without community input. Didn't the City learn from the Amazon debacle?

We have more than our fair share of problems here in Rockaway ,we dont need anymore.

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No more, The Rockaways need to up grade no more dumping..

They should put it some place else leave the Rockaways alone

Enough is enough

The plans to place a homeless shelter at this particular location less than two blocks from three schools with no proper support and employment opportunities, run by this organization and without any community discussion is despicable and disastrous for the entire community.

The last thing Rockaway needs is a homeless shelter. We are dumped on enough and finally getting some good businesses here and this will ruin it

Rockaway has more than its share of homeless/adult/nursing/SRO/project housing. We have the highest unemployment rate in Queens, few employment opportunities and poor infrastructure. The people of Rockaway have been working hard to improve and grow our community, we do not need that effort thwarted.

Let’s put some of these halfway houses/shelters in opulent better maintained neighborhoods so the residents occupying them may be introduced and integrated with more opportunity, resources, and wealth. Park slope would be a good start...More opportunity for jobs and in vicinity to one of the most bustling areas in Brooklyn as well as to Manhattan. Already clean, safe, and well maintained with a low crime rate. Excellent public transportation access if these unfortunate citizens need to travel to another area of the city and most importantly they can be closer to our mayor. Bill DeBlasio and Charlene McCrae can be proud that they are giving back and helping those in need by welcoming them into their progressive and financially secure neighborhood.

No more homeless shelters! We have more than we can handle already!

Stop the dumping!!

It is cruel to warehouse people in a place that doesn’t have adequate services to help them! Rockaway itself is struggling. It is also unsafe to place a homeless shelter of 120+ men near two schools!

STOP DUMPING ON ROCKAWAY...ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!

Stop the people dumping in Rockaway. We have enough nursing homes, halfway houses, sexual offender residences, sec 8, housing projects, the mentally ill roaming the streets and a hospital full of homeless. We want a better community. Enough!

This is a lose lose situation for all!!! It serves no use to the community or the homeless.

Our community already has more than it’s share of city owned housing projects, nursing homes and homeless facilities. When is enough enough !!

For the sake of the men intended to be “housed” here, with little opportunity for employment, medical and vocational support, transportation and transitional services, this makes no sense! For the sake of a dense and overburdened community still struggling to recover after a natural disaster of record magnitude, this makes no sense! The community, including its residents and representatives, needs to be part of a compassionate conversation about a decision that impacts everyone.

Enough is enough ,I am raising children here don't you think we have enough