The East Villages flocked to support Mamdani’s election, with 70% support — now they’ve gone to court to blocks policies that change THEIR neighborhood.
Isn’t that like a champagne socialist? They just love the poor and downtrodden as an abstraction, but want to keep the gritty flesh-and-blood reality well out of their sight.
When you welcome a gazillion people from around the planet with the promise sanctuary and support, finding a place for them all to call home is no simple task. When finite space meets endless demand, it takes some creative problem solving to resolve it.
In the Biden years, they filled up the hotels and billed DC for it. But the policy of stuffing hotels full of illegal immigrants is now days away from being closed off for good. Alternative arrangements were being made. Then came NIMBY.
Manhattan Judge Sabrina Kraus has filed an injunction preventing the occupancy of a men’s shelter in their neighbourhood on May 1st while the courts hear a legal complaint by a local activist group formed to oppose the relocation of Bellevue’s occupants to their own backyard.
But the group of East Village residents calling themselves VOICE – Village Organization for the Integrity of Community Engagement – sued to halt the opening, contending city officials rushed through the process.
Mamdani underhandedly declared an “emergency” to close the 250-person Bellevue shelter, the lawsuit argues.
Officials also ignored their own laws and codes, such as planning to put hundreds of people in an East Village building with strict occupancy limits, according to the lawsuit.
“This case is not about the City’s decision to close the Bellevue Intake Shelter,” the Manhattan Supreme Court filing states.
“It challenges only the City’s hastily made and legally invalid decision to [locate] a new citywide homeless adult male intake center at 8 East 3rd Street without following any of the legal requirements that must precede such a significant and consequential decision.” —NYPost
Source: Clash Daily
