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Have you ever seen the Pan Am Hotel? It's on Queens Boulevard, in a very commercial, crappy area. There is no "next door" unless you own a bodega. And you have to love the fact that most of the signs aren't in English....hobo? Really? There but for the grace of God go any of them.
It is not that bad an area. It is not a poor area by any means. I think there is a cemetary nearby. There is plenty of nice residential homes there.
If the city wants to put a shelter there, they can. These people have no right to protest this. No, if this homeless shelter is not properly run, then they can protest that.
If the city wants to put a shelter there, they can. These people have no right to protest this. No, if this homeless shelter is not properly run, then they can protest that.
No right? Of course they have a right, I wouldn't want a homeless shelter in my neighborhood I don't care what race they are. The most dangerous homeless are often crazy white guys. They're not just going to stay inside 24/7, they'll be hanging out on the corner soliciting and some will be breaking in and stealing to make ends meet or get their fix
You understand that homeless shelters can encompass a pretty large variety of people, right? It's not all belligerent drug addicts with PTSD. It is actually a fair number of families that were just scraping by when the bottom dropped out from under them.
You understand that homeless shelters can encompass a pretty large variety of people, right? It's not all belligerent drug addicts with PTSD. It is actually a fair number of families that were just scraping by when the bottom dropped out from under them.
No doubt, and you should be so lucky that the shelter houses humble hard working families down on their luck. Even if it's not single male felons, chances many of the mothers are substance abusers and have some sort of mental condition. Chances are many of the children are juvenile delinquents.
Take a walk down Bowery street between Houston and Spring St. and tell me you'd be okay with a homeless shelter in your neighborhood. It looks like a scene out of a zombie movie.
Take a walk down Bowery street between Houston and Spring St. and tell me you'd be okay with a homeless shelter in your neighborhood. It looks like a scene out of a zombie movie.
You are misinformed, and you seem to naively believe that looking at an image of a building from the front will tell you what the entire neighborhood consists of. BlakeJones already posted a Google street view image from a block away from the PanAm hotel that shows a lovely tree-lined streets with nicely kept homes, and you apparently just completely ignored that.
Since you don't know the area, why don't you do what BlakeJones suggests and at least move the little Google Street View guy around a few blocks to see what you didn't see the first time when you only looked at the facade of the actual building.
Yes, a hundred posts of 1 to 3 word replies that were totally useless is worse than spam. At least when they spam, the mods can get rid of them.
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