Shut down this nightmare

According to New York State's online registry, there are 27 Level 3 sex offenders living at the city-run Bedford-Atlantic Armory in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, or directly across the street at a second homeless facility run by a nonprofit using funds from the Department of Homeless Services.

A Level 3 designation is reserved for New York's most violent rapists and pedophiles, men who have done vile, unspeakable things to women and children. They are among the hundreds living at the twin shelters who end up wandering the streets of Crown Heights because they are ordered out of the shelter each morning with nothing constructive to do.

That is how DHS currently puts families at risk every day, just as they have for more than 25 years since the armory was converted into one of the worst-run shelters in the city...

Young and old, black and Jewish, rich and poor will all be on hand for a rally against the plan at 12:30 p.m. this Sunday right near the scene of the crime, the corner of Bedford and Atlantic Aves. Rally details are at revitalizecrownheights.org.


Courtesy of the NY Daily News
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Update: The figure provided describing 27 Level 3 sex offenders living at the Bedford-Atlantic Armory falls short of the actual reality. In addition to the 27 at Bedford Atlantic, another 14 can be found just around the corner at 1140 Pacific Street in the Peter G. Young Residence Shelter, another homeless shelter operated by the New York City Department of Homeless Services. That makes a total of 41 Level 3 sex offenders housed on the same street by the DHS in a Brooklyn neighborhood that has just about had enough.


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