Has Angel Guardian Home Started to Turn Into a Yeshiva for 600 Students?
Photo by: Pauline
In December 2020, Talmud Torah Imrei Emes D’Chasidei Gur purchased the main Angel Guardian Home. Since the building was landmarked, the owners asked the Landmarking Committee to make significant changes to the building.
Since they are a religious organization, the new owners understood how important the stained glass and other religious items in the Angel Guardian Home were. They requested to remove 15 stained glass windows and replace them with a similar shaped window. The Landmarking Committee said this has to be done with care and the items had to be put into storage. (See article)
The new developers wanted to change the entrance bit and some of the fixtures. See this document for the building changes they wanted to make.
They were given permission to remove these items as they are converting the orphanage into a Yeshiva for the Gur Sect. This will be for six hundred students in Pre-K through 8th grade children.
There are already two schools within a one block radius here. This will be a third school!
Saturating some areas with schools and thousands of students in a small is ridiculous! Traffic is going to be horrible around here with school buses and parent’s dropping off children.
Why did politicians and the press fail to tell the community about the changes to the historic building? Iwen Chu is the senator and she doesn’t seem to be aware or care.
Peter Abbate was voted out.
Senator Andrew Gounardes no longer represents this area. When Gounardes represented this area, he and Peter Abbate failed to show up for the landmarking meeting. Instead, Gounardes sent Councilman Brannan to the landmarking meeting because he didn’t care. Councilman Justin Brannan should not have been able to speak for a community he did not represent!
Justin Brannan never revealed that he was lobbied over this property. The the NYC Lobbyist Database showed us this:
Both Justin Brannan and Andrew Gounardes accepted donations which was written about here.
Hugs,
marlene
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