160-Bed Homeless Shelter for S.I.: Fossella Says Residents Must Be Heard

160-bed homeless shelter for S.I.: Fossella says residents must be heard

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella is calling on the New York City government to host a public hearing on a controversial homeless shelter proposed for Arthur Kill Road.

Staten Island Blasts New Men’s Shelter Plan

Residents say Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan for a 160-bed, all-male shelter in a quiet Staten Island neighborhood is a slap in the face. Locals and Republican lawmakers say the site is wrong and the process lacked transparency.

Zohran Mamdani Angers People of Staten Island With Plans to Build All-Male Homeless Shelter in Residential Area

Screencap of Twitter/X video. Residents of Staten Island are fuming over news that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is planning to build a large homeless shelter for men in a residential area on their island. Staten Island is much more politically conservative than Manhattan and people who live there are convinced that this is being done to punish them for voting the wrong way. Would it really surprise anyone if it was discovered that this was…

Staten Islanders rage at Mamdani as city approves homeless shelter: ‘He wants to screw us’

New York City approved plans for an all-male homeless shelter in the middle of the residential South Shore of Staten Island – proof of Mayor Mamdani's hatred for the forgotten and conservative borough, locals told The Post.