Hey Yo
01-31-2025, 12:31 PM
They had no vote or say in this even though their tax dollars are paying for this. Shit like this is why the conservatives are getting more votes
Bronx neighborhood is up in arms over a 2,200-bed migrant men’s shelter due to open on their block — but officials at City Hall said it’s already a done deal.
What has locals fired up are the plans for a vacant South Bronx storage facility that will now become home for asylum seeking men displaced from the troubled Randall’s Island migrant tent city — just around the corner from “The Hub,” one of the Big Apple’s most drug-addled strips.
“I have never been afraid in the South Bronx. I am now terrified,” a local merchant told city officials at a raucous Bronx Community Board 1 meeting on the plan Monday. “I will have to move. I’m a business person and I live in a building, I work in a building that has four other small business people.
They will all leave because it is too dangerous,” she said.
But asked if the plan was moving forward despite community objections, Deputy Mayor Camille Joseph Varlack had a simple response.
The answer is yes,” Varlack said.
The city will pay between $250,000-$340,000 to retrofit the building after approving an emergency contract that did not go through the standard bidding process, records show.
But neighbors of the new shelter said it’s being shoved down their throats.
“Without our vote you guys are making decisions for this community, without our input,” another irate local told the deputy mayor at the Community Board 1 meeting. “How dare you?”
https://nypost.com/2025/01/28/us-news/nyc-neighborhood-furious-over-new-migrant-shelter-but-city-hall-says-its-already-a-done-deal-how-dare-you/
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Bronx neighborhood is up in arms over a 2,200-bed migrant men’s shelter due to open on their block — but officials at City Hall said it’s already a done deal.
What has locals fired up are the plans for a vacant South Bronx storage facility that will now become home for asylum seeking men displaced from the troubled Randall’s Island migrant tent city — just around the corner from “The Hub,” one of the Big Apple’s most drug-addled strips.
“I have never been afraid in the South Bronx. I am now terrified,” a local merchant told city officials at a raucous Bronx Community Board 1 meeting on the plan Monday. “I will have to move. I’m a business person and I live in a building, I work in a building that has four other small business people.
They will all leave because it is too dangerous,” she said.
But asked if the plan was moving forward despite community objections, Deputy Mayor Camille Joseph Varlack had a simple response.
The answer is yes,” Varlack said.
The city will pay between $250,000-$340,000 to retrofit the building after approving an emergency contract that did not go through the standard bidding process, records show.
But neighbors of the new shelter said it’s being shoved down their throats.
“Without our vote you guys are making decisions for this community, without our input,” another irate local told the deputy mayor at the Community Board 1 meeting. “How dare you?”
https://nypost.com/2025/01/28/us-news/nyc-neighborhood-furious-over-new-migrant-shelter-but-city-hall-says-its-already-a-done-deal-how-dare-you/
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