The Adams administration says the ruling threatens the city’s ability to continue to address the migrant crisis.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.City Hall has plans to appeal a judge's Tuesday decision that ruled the city must stop using a former Catholic private school on Staten Island as a migrant shelter., Judge Wayne Ozzi ordered the city to remove those already housed at St.
“We are taking steps to immediately appeal this ruling, which we believe is incorrect in key respects and which threatens to disrupt efforts to manage this national humanitarian crisis,” Mamelak said. “Instances like this underscore the urgent need for a broader state and national solution, as we've emphasized repeatedly."
The appeal, which was slated to be filed on Tuesday, would freeze the order. No one will be removed from the facility, according to the mayor’s office. It was the“The 1981 consent decree is intended to address a problem as different from today's dilemma as night and day. It is an anachronistic relic from the past, an altruistic plan to assist local "Bowery derelicts,” Ozzi wrote in the latest decision.
The plaintiffs in the case include Staten Island resident Scott Heckert, who lives across the street from the school, Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella and representative Nicole Malliotakis.The site was just one of many to spark contentious demonstrations throughout the city, with Staten IslandJosh Goldfein, staff attorney with the Homeless Rights Project at The Legal Aid Society, said the decision was unlawful.
“This decision is not rooted in law and ignores existing emergency and executive orders, court decrees, and New York’s constitutional requirement to provide shelter to all who seek it,” Goldfein said.newly arrived migrants from the city’s right-to-shelter mandate.
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