As reported in OTBKB, a group calling itself the Park Slope Homeless Coalition met a few weeks ago with the Department of Homeless Services. Today there’s a piece about them in the Brooklyn Paper.
The three homeless men who sparked a flurry of soul searching in Park Slope — and the ire of a local pastor — after refusing to moderate their drinking and noise-making have abandoned their long-time hangout on the steps of the Old First Reformed Church, but they have left a legacy behind.
Rev. Daniel Meeter, Rabbi Andy Bachman of Congregation Beth Elohim, and the Park Slope Civic Council have formed the “Park Slope Coalition for the Homeless,” which will be devoted to improving the well-being of the dozens of homeless who flock to the Slope for its wealth of, well, wealth.
The incipient group was borne from a Nov. 20 meeting with the city’s Department of Homeless Services.
The next day, Bachman posted the Coalition’s four basic principles on his blog, www.andybachman.com: “Acknowledge with dignity those who are homeless. … Work for their dignity and safety. Connect them to the variety of homeless services in the city. Support the provision of services to these people.”
actually there are many in bay ridge, been near the key food on 3rd ave lately
‘”access to the city’s homeless services,” there’s a reason homeless people avoid that route.’
Indeed there is– it’s that many of them are mentally ill or drug addicted and therefore unable to make sound decisions regarding their own well-being. The correct response to this is not to let them trespass on private property and harass passersby.
limosine liberals………you all are fools….and these so called “homeless” know it…..they are just mooches feeding off your guilt, fools.
Dont see them in Bay Ridge now do ya’? Wonder why
I don’t know … I walked by them numerous times and I never heard them making noise. They never bothered me. I don’t get the whole ‘church’ thing. I’ve heard too many disturbing stories of churches killing stray cats and birds – and now in a neighborhood that tries to be so p.c., the idea that these men were booted out is questionable to me. also, “access to the city’s homeless services,” there’s a reason homeless people avoid that route.