Permits have been filed for a six-story homeless shelter at 3251 Westchester Avenue in Pelham Bay, The Bronx. Located between Colonial Avenue and St. Paul Avenue, the lot is within steps of the Pelham Bay Park subway station, served by the 6 train. Chris Karalis is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The proposed 62-foot-tall development will yield 40,941 square feet for 37,616 square feet designated for community facility space. The concrete-based structure will also have a 30-foot-long rear yard.
Andrew Knox of ESKW/A is listed as the architect of record.
Demolition permits were filed in July for the single-story structure on the site. An estimated completion date has not been announced.
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Just what the neighborhood needs.
There is already a homeless shelter 2 blocks away.
A middle class neighborhood- that politicians tried to ruin with such facilities because it is The Bronx. They were determined to remove even all the middle class people from the borough
Please expound on this conspiracy theory. Because right now it sounds like the mumblings of a crazy homeless person.
Someone who knows nothing about the history of NYC and specifically The Bronx itself. Call me back when they put up a shelter like this in Brooklyn Heights or Park Slope or Bayside or Cambria Heights. The Bronx is over saturated with homeless shelters and that is a fact. Ask any Bronx elected official and they can tell you that – because their constituents constantly complain. If you knew the history of the South Bronx and what led to the fires it was because the pour from the slums of Manhattan were encouraged to move up to the South Bronx. Working class people began to flee as crime increased. They moved to the North Bronx and even more so to the suburbs. In the last 20 odd years all across the North Bronx from Wakefield to Pelham Bay (only Woodlawn seems to have been able to fight it) Al- homeless shelters have been erected in neighborhoods that did not have problems with poverty. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why. Bedford Park and Norwood that also used to be working and middle class has become saturated with low income housing. The fact is for 60 years the Bronx has had to absorb the poor of NYC. That is not conspiracy – that is fact. Measurable – statistical fact. Do you have a clue about Pelham Bay? As the poster noted above they have put these facilities there. Pelham Bay was not poor by any stretch. I recall 20 years ago they converted a facility there for people with drug issues and other such things. The community protested. Why? They are homeowners and knew their property values would be negatively affected. Many simply sold and moved to the suburbs. You try owning something and see how you feel. The fact is they don’t spread these types of facilities out proportionally.
I would say these facilities are showing up in further flung middle class neighborhoods in The Bronx exactly because they are spreading these types of facilities out proportionally.
Oh and please don’t lecture a person you don’t know about NYC history. I’m well aware of the demographic dynamics of The Bronx.
NFA if it was proportional then it would be spread out to other boroughs. Coy-ness doesn’t work. A lot of the people filling the homeless shelters and newer low income housing are from Brooklyn even – not just Manhattan anymore. This has never been accidental.
Helping the poor is shockingly a Christian ideal.
Put one next to you. You know what else is Christian? Not tolerating anti social behavior … which is what a lot of those facilities bring. Go check what the apostles said about certain behaviors. Yes people can become homeless by losing jobs because of a lay off. But let’s stop pretending that is the case with a lot of people. The people who got laid off through no fault of their own usually aren’t the ones causing the bad behavior associated with those shelters
Hurray!
More Buildings!
More People!
More Density!
More Traffic on Our Streets, Subways and Busses, etc.,
While our Fragile Infrastructure Continues to Crumble.
Yes hurray!