Parents and other local residents in a Brooklyn neighborhood are blasting city leaders for opening an all-male migrant shelter right next to a school for young children.
New York City officials in April opened a 400-bed migrant shelter for men in Gowanus, Brooklyn — to the dismay of local residents who spoke to the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), a non-profit organization that focuses on women’s issues. Locals say they were not given proper notice before the shelter opened up, and expressed outrage that a massive all-male facility would open up roughly 1,000 feet away from a children’s K-12 school.
“We were not given any transparency,” Jeffrey Reed, the principal of City Life Academy, a private Christian school in Gowanus, Brooklyn, near the shelter, told IWF. “They knew there would be pushback, and they knew if they had gone through the correct channels or the proper channels, that probably never would’ve opened.”
New York City officials also allegedly did not follow health protocols for environmental testing and violated other building codes, allowing for an expedited process to open the facility, according to IWF.
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