Notices are up along the sidewalk bridge on the northwest corner of Houston at Avenue B from the the NYC Department of Homeless Services (DHS) ...
The flyers state that the DHS along with the NYPD and other city agencies "will complete a clean-up" of this area...and people need to vacate along with their belongings. Anything left behind by tomorrow may be discarded.
As for this longstanding sidewalk bridge, according to the DOB, a permit for it was first approved in December 2014. The city renewed the permit in October. The building, 6 Avenue B, has been vacant for years. The liquor store in the retail space has been closed since the owner died in the fall of 2009.
Updated 12/22
The area under the sidewalk bridge has been cleaned...
Now everything that was there is neatly stacked a few feet away on the curb (as Neighbor noted in the comments) ...
... and the belonging all have these fake-looking U.S. Federal Use labels...
And "Max," who was sleeping under the sidewalk bridge, is now in the adjacent bus shelter.
Previously on EV Grieve:
DHS flyers on 1st Street
The city is evicting homeless people now. Does that make them "double homeless".
ReplyDeleteWhere do they expect these people to go or even able bodied working people to go when they are priced out of their neighborhoods? Mayor de Faustio is way behind schedule in building the 90 shelters he promised.
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Oh boy. I hope they give the guy whose stuff this is some help. All of the stuff in that photo plus all of the bags chained to poles in front of the FedEx belong to the same guy who walks around talking to himself and recording notes in a phone that doesn't seem to work. He has seemed to be getting increasingly unstable so hopefully he gets some help and the people doing this clean out are careful. Unfortunately this seems long overdue. As does doing something about this building.
ReplyDeleteMayor de Blasio should be there to deal with it personally.
ReplyDeleteThe building is vacant. Too bad the homeless outside it can't move inside. Win-win.
ReplyDelete"Max" has been at this corner for the past 2 years or so (possibly even longer). Hopefully, he's able to find a place that is "suitable" for him. Him choosing to stay on the streets for as long as he has over a city shelter saids a lot about the conditions of the shelters.
ReplyDeleteEverything is just outside the scaffolding now. Interesting that they (or "Max') just moved it and it was left alone.
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