Throngs of demonstrators marched through the normally sleepy streets of Sheepshead Bay to protest plans for a family homeless shelter — as locals claimed the city pulled a bait and switch to get the project OK’d. A long caravan of cars snaked through about 20 blocks of the Brooklyn neighborhood Sunday while crowds carried signs…
Locals protest incoming homeless shelter after alleged NYC bait-and-switch: ‘Community is outraged’
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