A Staten Island judge Tuesday ordered the city to stop using the site of a former Catholic school as a 300-person migrant shelter — while blasting the Big Apple’s “Right to Shelter” law as a “relic from the past.”
The Adams administration last month convinced the state’s Appellate Division to keep the Staten Island shelter open hours after the same judge ordered it shut down in an earlier order.
A lawyer for the city argued that Herkert’s complaints do not rise to the level of what’s known as an “irreparable harm” that the judge would need to find to order the site closed and accused Herkert and other locals of “just does not wanting to live near a shelter.”
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