‘Not the deep South’: Adams slams NYC homeless shelter protests

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Mayor Eric Adams took aim at people protesting homeless shelters for single adult men Monday morning, telling New Yorkers it’s “not the deep South.” The comment came nearly two weeks after a high-profile protest in Bensonhurst against a shelter that would be the first of its kind in the neighborhood, according to city officials. Adams did not specifically reference the protest in Bensonhurst. “Every community we go to, we hear the same thing, we will take any group but single, adult Black men,” Adams said. “Look at all the protests. Protests are not for children and family shelters, protests are not for single adult women.” Other communities have previously opposed migrant shelters, including a shelter in Clinton Hill that experienced two nearby shootings as well as opposition to housing migrants at a school in Williamsburg. “Everywhere I go people tell me housing is a right… but as soon as we put a brick down in the neighborhood they say wait a minute not here,

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Mayor Eric Adams took aim at people protesting homeless shelters for single adult men Monday morning, telling New Yorkers it’s “not the deep South.” The comment came nearly two weeks after a high-profile protest in Bensonhurst against a shelter that would be the first of its kind in the neighborhood, according to city officials. Adams did not specifically reference the protest in Bensonhurst. “Every community we go to, we hear the same thing, we will take any group but single, adult Black men,” Adams said. “Look at all the protests. Protests are not for children and fam