Brooklyn residents are saying no to a proposed homeless shelter at 2134 Coyle St. in Sheepshead Bay, with the newest protest on Might 4, 2025.
Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
Brooklyn residents took to the streets on a wet Sunday afternoon to protest the town’s plans to open a homeless shelter in a single neighborhood.
Greater than 300 individuals marched alongside Coney Island Avenue and different native streets in opposition to the proposal for a shelter at 2134 Coyle St. in Sheepshead Bay. The location was beforehand authorised for inexpensive housing, however native residents say the town’s plan now to open a homeless shelter for 169 households quantities to a “bait-and-switch.”
Opponents of the shelter have been trying to get the location shut down for almost two months via lively protests and demonstrations on the location. Final week, at the very least two protesters had been arrested on the location for disorderly conduct.
Brooklyn residents are saying no to a proposed homeless shelter at 2134 Coyle St. in Sheepshead Bay, with the newest protest on Might 4, 2025.Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
Main the Might 4 march had been Republican state Sen. Steven Chen and mayoral candidate and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa. Each took goal at Mayor Eric Adams for shifting ahead with the homeless shelter plan, and vowed to do all the pieces of their energy to cease it.
“Understand the Adams administration, the other people running for mayor, they are trying to put shelters all over the city, in the Bronx, in Queens, in Brooklyn, in Staten Island, but now Manhattan, those are your brothers and sisters,” Sliwa mentioned. “If we have to, we will bring everybody together. We will confront Eric Adams, the mayor, because he won’t come here. We’ll go to Gracie Mansion on a Sunday and say, ‘Come on out. Eric Adams, talk to the people. Don’t be afraid of the people.’”
Republican Candiate for Mayor Curtis Silwa spoke on the Might 4, 2025 protest in opposition to a homeless shelter in Brooklyn.Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell 
Brooklyn state Sen. Steven Chen speaks out in opposition to the shelter.Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
Chen charged that Mayor Adams was “hell bent on wanting to destroy the last of our good neighborhoods” and urged residents to make their voices heard on the poll packing containers this yr.
“You have a superpower. Each person here has a superpower, and that superpower is to use it wisely next month, for our primary election and for our November election, that’s your superpower,” Chen mentioned.
Protest organizers say they plan to take their case on to Metropolis Corridor in Manhattan this Wednesday for one more protest.
