Brooklyn residents took to the streets on a rainy Sunday afternoon to protest the city’s plans to open a homeless shelter in one neighborhood.
More than 300 people marched along Coney Island Avenue and other local streets against the proposal for a shelter at 2134 Coyle St. in Sheepshead Bay. The site was previously approved for affordable housing, but local residents say the city’s plan now to open a homeless shelter for 169 families amounts to a “bait-and-switch.”
