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January 16, 2010
Pop star Crystal Waters sings in protest of closing homeless shelter for Atlantic Yards project
Daily News
By Dick McLaughlin and Erin Durkin
A homeless shelter that housed 80 families is set to close Friday to make way for the Atlantic Yards project - and a pop star famous for a song about homelessness is jumping into the fight to stop the shutdown.
The city says all the residents at the Pacific Dean shelter - which will be demolished so the land can be used to store construction equipment for an arena for the NBA's Nets - will be relocated. But homeless advocates say it still makes no sense to remove beds from an overburdened shelter system.
"It's the dead of winter," said pop star Crystal Waters, who will perform her hit song "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)," at a rally Saturday calling on the city to leave the shelter open until spring. "I'm just asking them to have a little heart."
Posted by steve at January 16, 2010 11:05 AM