Two dozen destitute families with 37 school-aged kids were evicted from a Queens homeless shelter — despite desperate pleas for Mayor Zohran Mamdani to stop the displacements.
The evictions from the City View Inn in Long Island City began last weeks, shortly after the families received an abrupt notice that it’d would be converted into a shelter for single men, officials said.
The displacements quickly drew outrage from locals angry that the 25 families, whose children attended a nearby public school, would be relocated in the middle of their school year and a devastatingly cold, deadly winter.
They hastily organized an emergency protest, where Councilwoman Julie Won (D-Queens) decried the evictions as a callous holdover from the much-criticized migrant shelter policies of former Mayor Eric Adams — and called for Mamdani’s administration to put a stop to it…