East Villagers revolt! Neighborhood furious over Mamdani ‘emergency order’ sticking it with planned men shelters

East Village residents are up in arms over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s scheme to relocate one of the Big Apple’s most notorious homeless shelters to their neighborhood — potentially transforming it into a doormat for Gotham’s indigent, and a magnet for crime.

Former clientele at the soon-to-shutter Bellevue Shelter on East 30th Street in Midtown included a slew of ex-cons and sickos, such as deranged stabber Ramon Rivera, who went on a 2.5-hour stabbing spree in Manhattan on Nov. 18, 2024, that killed three people.

“None of you all can stop drinking and drugging … and all lingering around here creating crimes and all kinds of stuff,” roared Rev. Keith Gadson, one of the hundreds of locals who bashed city officials at a heated meeting Tuesday about the under-the-radar facility. “Put it in your neighborhood!”…

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