At Least 3 New Homeless Shelters Coming To Prospect Heights, Crown Heights

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Within 24 hours of announcing 90 new homeless shelters would open across the city over the next five years, the NYC Department of Homeless Services has revealed locations for four of the shelters.

The first, a home for LGBT 20-somethings, opened a couple months ago in the Bronx's Belmont neighborhood. The other three? They'll be located within a 1 mile radius of each other in the Prospect Heights and Crown Heights area of Brooklyn, city officials said Wednesday.

Here are some specs on the three new Brooklyn shelters, courtesy of the Department of Homeless Services:

265 Rogers Ave., Crown Heights

• Community notification date: Feb. 15, 2017
• Nonprofit service provider: Samaritan Village
• 132 families with children

1173 Bergen St., Crown Heights

• Community notification date: Feb. 15, 2017
• Nonprofit service provider: CORE
• Single men, employed and/or 50 years old and above

174 Prospect Place ("Phoenix House"), Prospect Heights

• Community notification date: Feb. 15, 2017
• Nonprofit service provider: CUCS
• Adult women

Before opening a new homeless shelter, according to freshly updated city protocol, the Department of Homeless Services must notify nearby residents within 30 days and hold "at least one community meeting with local groups and leaders."

Patch was not immediately able to determine Wednesday whether these meetings had already been held — or at least scheduled — for the Prospect Place, Bergen Street and Rogers Avenue shelters.

Taking into account the city's new protocol, though, the two Crown Heights facilities and one Prospect Heights facility could open as soon as mid-March.

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"We know a lot of people are going to say, 'Wait, we don’t want anything like that in our neighborhood,'" NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a Tuesday press conference on his massive shelter-opening effort. "Well, guess what? Everyone needs to take on their fair share."

And just because the city must provide neighbors with 30 days notice, he said, "that does not mean if there’s protest we will change our minds."

For more on what to expect from the mayor's new shelter plan, see Patch's extended explainer.

Lead photo of 174 Prospect Place via Google Maps