PORT RICHMOND — Community Board 1 will hold a special meeting Tuesday night to discuss the proposed mental health facility planned for Port Richmond.
The board's Port Richmond/Mariner's Harbor area committee will vote on whether the board should back Saint Joseph's Medical Center's plan to put a 77-unit mental health facility at 108-110 Port Richmond Ave.
The facility was originally slated to rise at 78 Fort Place in St. George, but after community backlash, Saint Joseph's agreed to sell the former convent to a developer who wants to turn it into more than 30 apartments.
The new plans in Port Richmond call for 77 apartments, with 50 set aside for Staten Islanders suffering from mental illnesses and the remainder being used for affordable housing, according to a letter of intent sent to the board.
Opponents of the plan said the neighborhood is already inundated with social services and that the proposed facility would sit too close to a school and a park.
"It’s wrong for the neighborhood, we already have at least 33 facilities here," Beryl Thurman, president of the North Shore Waterfront Conservancy, previously told DNAinfo New York. "This is a neighborhood that has lots of children, a park that's right here, a library. All the things that attract young children."
The CB1 committee meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at 250 Park Ave. The full board will vote on the proposal on July 21 at Brighton Heights Church, the board said.
