Parents of students at P.S. 124 are alarmed due to the increased traffic from the nearby Skyway Shelter. Parents are noticing shelter residents are hanging around near the school and local park. The 176 bed facility houses formerly homeless men and sex offenders. Click below to read more.
Parents are fuming over the presence of homeless men from a nearby shelter, which also houses sex offenders, hanging out near their children’s isolated South Ozone Park school.
Parents at Public School/Middle School 124 said they’ve seen more residents of the Skyway Shelter congregating near the school — and a park attached to the building — over the past few months, and they are worried these men could be convicted sex offenders.
“I’m very concerned,” PS/MS 124 Parent Teacher Association member Assunta Soldano told the Daily News on Friday.
“Allowing a sexual predator to be (near) almost 1,300 students — and almost 200 staff members — is like putting honey in front of a bear,” said Soldano, who also spoke at the school on Tuesday, during a town hall meeting about the shelter.
