DOE still not interested in Cooper Avenue shelter site

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homelessshelter_blogOpposition to the proposed 125-family transitional housing facility on Cooper Avenue in Glendale remains a diligent force during Community Board 5 meetings.

Last week, Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley stopped by the board’s monthly meeting at Christ the King High School to assure that she has not yet given up the fight.

Following a clean environmental assessment statement of the property earlier this year, Crowley began pushing inflatable water slide for support from her fellow elected officials to override the homeless shelter plans for a nine-acre school campus.

“I believe that this is the best use for this property, and I believe that if we continue to work together we will see that site becomes a school,” Crowley said at the meeting last week.

Despite consistent refusal from the Department of Education (DOE) to consider the site for a new school campus, Crowley said she will continue to fight for what she says is necessary to combat an overcrowding crisis in the district.

See full story at the Queens Ledger

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