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Two dozen destitute families with 37 school-aged kids were evicted from
a Queens homeless shelter rCo despite desperate pleas for Mayor Zohran
Mamdani to stop the displacements.

The evictions from the City View Inn in Long Island City began last
weeks, shortly after the families received an abrupt notice that itrCOd
would be converted into a shelter for single men, officials said.

The displacements quickly drew outrage from locals angry that the 25
families, whose children attended a nearby public school, would be
relocated in the middle of their school year and a devastatingly cold,
deadly winter.

They hastily organized an emergency protest, where Councilwoman Julie
Won (D-Queens) decried the evictions as a callous holdover from the much-criticized migrant shelter policies of former Mayor Eric Adams rCo
and called for MamdanirCOs administration to put a stop to it.

rCLStop these inhumane, Eric Adams-era practices of treating people like objects and property,rCY Won said during the protest, according to a CBS
New York report.

rCLThe new mayor must put an end to inhumane displacement policies for our migrant families,rCY Won added to The Post this week. rCLLet our children
stay in their neighborhood shelter where they have built community
within the last year and let them walk to their local school.rCY

City Hall officials on Friday defended the decision to convert the
shelter along Greenpoint Avenue, arguing the brutal cold snap made it
necessary to find sanctuary for adult homeless men.

rCLWe moved with urgency to expand low-barrier bed capacity for single New Yorkers experiencing homelessness rCo reconfiguring and optimizing
existing shelter space to meet the moment,rCY a City Hall spokesperson
said, contending officials worked to accommodate the familiesrCO needs.

rCLBecause responding to a crisis isnrCOt just about adding beds. ItrCOs about protecting peoplerCOs lives, their education, and their path to stability
rCo all at once.rCY

But the evictionsrCO abruptness rankled locals whorCOve long made peace with the migrant family shelter, which opened in 2018 as a rCLtemporaryrCY
facility.

rCLWe understand their plight and we were willing to hold on because it
was still living up to the original intent, which was these were
temporary and they would be closed,rCY said Tom Mituzas, a member of the
local Blissville Civic Association.

rCLWhy were the men more important than the people already living there? I donrCOt understand why there had to be a change. Why did they have to push
them out?rCY

The Blissville Civic Association sent Mamdani and other local elected
officials a Feb. 11 letter pressing for details about whether the single menrCOs shelter would be permanent or temporary.

Meanwhile, some families who lived in the shelter have been moved all
the way into Jamaica, despite their children still remaining enrolled in
PS 199 Maurice A. Fitzgerald School in Sunnyside, a stonerCOs throw away
from the shelter, a spokesperson for Won said.

Won directed some of her fire at the Department of Social Services
Commissioner Molly Wasow Park, an Adams appointee who recently tendered
her resignation and whorCOs last day was Monday.

rCLCommissioner Park has a responsibility to keep families in their community,rCY Won said in a statement.

rCLDSS/DHS evicted all 37 children and their families from a neighborhood shelter in our district, ripping them from the homes, friends, and
routines that they relied on for months,rCY Won said Friday.

rCLIt is deplorable that this agency did nothing to stop these evictions
from happening in the dead of winter. There must be immediate policy
changes at DSS/DHS to halt all transfers and evictions during the school yearrCoall children deserve stability and protection.rCY

City Hall officials said kindergarten through sixth-grade students are
entitled to busing if theyrCOve been placed in temporary housing.
Upper-grade students can receive OMNY cards, they said.

https://nypost.com/2026/02/13/us-news/dozens-of-students-families-evicted -from-nyc-homeless-shelter-after-locals-plead-for-mamdani-to-step-in/

Comments

Smit Anton87
8 hours ago

1000% for it. Temporary for 8 years is plenty. Time to move homeless men
there. This addition will hopefully bring much needed diversity to
gentrified areas. The lovely residents will do everything in their power
to bring the properties value in the area down and with that make it
more affordable for everyone especially those who they displaces from
the shelter. As the success of this will be guaranteed it should be
exported to other areas. May I suggest Astoria, Green Point, Bushwick,
BedSty, Flatbush, Bay Ridge, Williamsburg and many many more.

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