Financial District locals are raging against plans to open a “safe haven” homeless shelter in their lower Manhattan neighborhood — just 50 feet away from a city-funded site housing migr…
Financial District locals are raging against plans to open a “safe haven” homeless shelter in their lower Manhattan neighborhood — just 50 feet away from a city-funded site housing migrants.
The online petition – created in April and signed by over 1,200 people – urged thorough criminal background checks, an 11 p.m. curfew, a safety protocol inked by police and local officials, as well as a reduced bed count of 50, among other amendments to the plans. Criminal background checks should include a sex offender registry scrub, the petition reads.
“The reality is you have two shelters opening 15 feet from each other and both shelter operators are not accountable for anything that happens outside of their premises.” “Having a curfew where people have to be inside the site … is definitely something that doesn’t work well for the Safe Haven model,” he said. “So we haven’t changed that.”
“If we’re there and we see it, we will obviously address it,” Rosenthal said. “Other than that 311, 911 are your friends.” Neighborhood resident Shelley, who declined to provide her last name, told The Post most locals are “pro-shelter” and want to aid the migrant population – but 105 Washington St. isn’t the right place to do it.
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