Staten Islanders rage at Mamdani as NYC approves homeless shelter: He wants to screw us
New York City approved plans for an all-male homeless shelter in the middle of the residential South Shore of Staten Island – proof of Mayor Mamdani’s hatred for the forgotten and conservative borough, locals told The Post. Fed-up residents believe the 160-bed shelter coming to the corner of Arthur Kill and Richmond Valley Road in Charleston will bring crime, drugs and loitering, and see the move as yet another insult from the socialist mayor.“A hundred percent he wants to screw us because we vote conservative,” said Bruce Daniele, whose gym business Intoxx Fitness is across the street from the planned shelter.The South Shore of Staten Island voted heavily for Andrew Cuomo in the 2025 mayoral election.The shelter will house employed and unemployed single men, and provide services to help them find jobs and “stabilize their lives,” the city Department of Homeless Services told The Post. The city confirmed the plans on March 5 – the same day Hizzoner announced the Bellevue men’s shelter in Manhattan will be shuttering. “If the goal is to help people stabilize their lives and find employment, placing a large shelter in what’s essentially a transit desert makes no sense,” Republican Councilman Frank Morano told The Post.The borough’s South Shore is largely middle-class and residential, with few social services and poor transit options.The only train station is a 20-minute walk from the shelter site, and buses can take 90 minutes to reach Manhattan.A petition against the shelter has received hundreds of signatures.Local leaders said they are still in the dark about the facility, which will be overseen by nonprofit Community Housing Innovations (CHI) and is set to open in mid-2027. They said they have not seen any renderings of the proposed four-story building or been told how much it will cost taxpayers.“I’m hoping that politics are not at play here,” Borough President Vito Fossella told The Post.
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