East Village residents who voted for New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani by a 40-point margin are now suing to stop a building in their neighborhood from becoming a temporary homeless shelter.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in New York City Supreme Court, shows the reluctance even among Mamdani’s supporters to implement some of his plans.
News of the lawsuit has prompted conservative derision online, with figures like Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, turning the irony of Mamdani’s supporters into a fruit of his administration.
“Oops,” Sen. Ted Cruz said in a post to X.
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“No one is more ‘in my backyard’ than white progressives. This community voted for Mamdani in a landslide but doesn’t want to live with the consequences,” former New York Attorney General Michael Henry wrote on social media.
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“Not surprised,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said in his own post.
Electoral District 45, an area that includes the East Village, voted for Mamdani with 70.1% over independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, who received only 26.0% of the vote.
Still, after Mamdani announced plans earlier this year to turn a building at 8 East 3rd Street into a citywide intake shelter to house homeless adult men, 10 residents joined the Village Organization for Integrity of Community Engagement (VOICE).
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The filing argues the city fast-tracked the process without proper environmental and legal protections.
“It challenges the city’s hasty and legally invalid decision to locate a new citywide homeless adult male intake center at 8 East 3rd Street without following any legal requirements before making such an important and consequential decision,” the filing states.
To avoid them, the complaint notes that Mamdani relied on a declaration of emergency from 2022 – a power originally issued to handle the influx of refugees.
Mamdani announced the temporary housing project at 8 East 3rd Street as a way to accommodate the closing of the Bellevue Shelter, a separate homeless intake site that the mayor’s office said was too dilapidated for use.
“The Department of Social Services (DSS) and Department of Homeless Services (DHS) will immediately implement an operational plan to evacuate 30th Street and relocate critical operations to other sites. There are approximately 250 individuals in the shelter and DSS is working to relocate these individuals by mid-March,” the office said in a statement.
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The mayor’s office said a second housing site at 333 Bowery St. will open, starting May 1, to house families without minor children.
The New York Supreme Court has not yet responded to a request for emergency relief that would block the city’s plans.
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