{"id":263582,"date":"2026-06-11T19:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263582\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T19:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:34:07","slug":"new-staten-island-homeless-shelter-plan-faces-unanimous-opposition-from-community-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263582\/","title":{"rendered":"New Staten Island Homeless Shelter Plan Faces Unanimous Opposition From Community Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A new homeless shelter plan on Staten Island is facing unanimous opposition from Community Board 1. Representatives from the city Department of Social Services and Project Hospitality said the 109 Port Richmond Ave. site will serve 64 adult families. Michelle Gassama said the shelter would let a sheltered mother and her 17-year-old son with Duchenne muscular dystrophy stay together on Staten Island. She said the pair currently could not remain together when the boy turns 18. Mario Buonviaggio said the shelter would forever change the community and decimate the commercial corridor from Post Avenue to Richmond Terrace. Community Board 1 voted unanimously to disapprove the project, with one abstention. City officials say they notified community leaders in February, but Community Board 1 leadership, Borough President Vito Fossella and City Councilmember Kamillah Hanks said they never received those notices. The city expects the Port Richmond shelter to open this summer, even as ownership of the site traces to Japrindal Sandhu and the Sandhu Group is tied to other Staten Island shelter properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new homeless shelter plan on Staten Island is facing unanimous opposition from Community Board 1. Representatives from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9020,56488,27544,102199,102197,9,24,63,102196,134,136,135,102198],"class_list":["post-263582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-community-board","tag-department-of-social-services","tag-homeless-shelter","tag-mario-buonviaggio","tag-michelle-gassama","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-project-hospitality","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-unanimous-opposition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}