NYC Health + Hospitals to Open Second Bridge to Home Facility in Crown Heights
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NYC Health + Hospitals announced that it will expand the Bridge to Home program to Brooklyn, building on the “success” of the program’s Manhattan site. Bridge to Home aims to break the cycle between street, shelter, and recurring hospital admission for “unhoused New Yorkers diagnosed with serious mental illness” (SMI) by addressing the gap between inpatient psychiatric treatment and permanent housing placement. The program offers unhoused patients with SMI a stable, home-like environment with onsite clinical services, behavioral health care, and housing application assistance to ensure they can continue their recovery while they transition to permanent housing.
Earlier this month, the NYC Health + Hospitals Board of Directors approved a five-year lease to expand the program to Brooklyn. Like its Manhattan counterpart, the Bridge to Home site at 1464 Atlantic Ave (Mirage Hotel) in Crown Heights, Brooklyn will serve up to 50 guests with 24/7 on-site services and stays of up to 12 months, until guests are connected to permanent, supportive housing. Providers from NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull will work on-site to ensure guests have access to a full spectrum of health care services, including behavioral health care, medical treatment, social services and housing navigation. The Brooklyn site is expected to welcome its first guests in early fall 2026.
“The core of Bridge to Home is simple: to provide our most vulnerable neighbors with the care and clinical services they need to recover,” said Mayor Mamdani. “For New Yorkers living with serious mental illness, the cycle between shelters, hospitals and the streets has become a revolving door that the City has accepted for too long. This program will help break that cycle with continuous care and a path to permanent housing.”
“Bridge to Home has already shown us what is possible when we meet patients where they are and give them the time, stability, and services they need to recover,” said NYC Health + Hospitals President and CEO Mitchell Katz, MD. “Opening a second location in Brooklyn makes good on our commitment to every patient who has been waiting for this opportunity, and brings us closer to the day when no eligible patient leaves our hospitals without a safe, supportive place to go.”
“Programs like Bridge to Home are critical: too many New Yorkers living with serious mental illness are discharged from inpatient care with nowhere stable to go, making it incredibly difficult to continue treatment or maintain any kind of stability. We cannot continue responding to homelessness and mental health crises as though housing is separate and apart from healthcare,” said New York City (Crown Heights) Council Member Crystal Hudson and Chair of the Committee on General Welfare. “This program creates a real bridge between inpatient treatment and permanent housing while giving people the support and time they need to recover. I am grateful to NYC Health + Hospitals for bringing this investment to my district in Brooklyn and for continuing to build solutions that recognize the humanity and dignity of our unhoused neighbors.”
A concerned Lubavitcher mother that lives on Sterling Place stated “NY is about to convert a hotel on Atlantic Ave near Kingston Ave to a Homeless shelter for very dangerous criminals. While this is technically located in north Crown Heights just outside our community, what is stopping these shelter residents and former inmates with “serious mental illness” from roaming on Kingston a few blocks south into the Shchunah? Our ultra-progressive councilwoman Crystal Hudson actually had the audacity to proudly support this project with a “word salad” claiming that this shelter will help the neighborhood. Where is the red line? Will we CV”S wait for a real tragedy to happen before the Askonim notify our elected officials the common-sense reality that these shelters will put all the families, residents and visitors to the neighborhood in danger?”
“While this development is outside of the Assembly district of our community, previous homeless shelters within our district were supported by our state representatives. Ironically the only homeless shelter that was allegedly opposed from Assemblyman Brian Cunningham, with a letter which was not posted on any official form communication or social media from our Assembly members office, is located on Empire Blvd in west Crown Heights outside our district. It makes one wonder if that “letter” was only meant to be viewed by CH Jews and not the broader constituents of the district?”
Another member of anash that lives on Lincoln Place expressed that in the summer months when the weather is warm, Brower Park in north Crown Heights is frequented by many Chabad families, and questioned if it will still be safe to bring our children to that park with a Homeless shelter for patients with “serious mental illnesses” nearby.
NYC Health + Hospitals will present next week to Brooklyn Community Board 8 (CB8) at the general board meeting their plan on how they will operate this new Homeless shelter and why it will be ‘beneficial’ to the neighborhood. It is not known if they will allow any questions to be asked from the public. Unfortunately there currently are no Lubavitcher members on Community Board 8.
For Crown Heights and East Flatbush residents to vote for a member of anash, NYS Assembly candidate Ahron Gluck, in this month’s Democratic primary election so he can try his best to stop all the Homeless Shelters in our district and work together with neighboring Assembly members to try to curb nearby homeless shelters that will affect CH, you must be registered to vote as a Democrat for Gluck: https://e-register.vote.nyc
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