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For years the Muller Army Reserve center has been on East 238th Street, but the Army is moving out and the Bloomberg administration wants to move 200 homeless people in --
something that's not sitting well with Bronx leaders.

"Mayor Bloomberg, you and your deputy mayors who are trying to make this decision and you don't live in our borough, you need to stop. Enough is enough," Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Junior told reporters at a rally Thursday at City Hall.

In a five block radius in the mostly residential neighborhood there are three proposals to build shelters and permanent housing for the formerly homeless. On Bronx Boulevard across the street from the Army reserve site, a homeless shelter is supposed to be constructed. And at a vacant lot on White Plains Road and 237th Street there are plans to build housing for the formerly homeless who have AIDS.

"One community should not shoulder the burden for an entire homeless policy issue in New York City," said State Senator Jeff Klein.

"Ladies and gentleman it is time the mayor woke up and started doing things the way they should be done, for the benefit of the people," said Community Board 12 Chairman Reverend Richard Gorman.

Diaz Junior says he's decided to abstain from voting in a federal process with the Bloomberg administration that would turn the Army reserve site into a shelter. Instead, Bronx leaders say they have a better plan: move the New York State National Guard from its current location at the Kingsbridge Armory to the Army reserve site, then build schools at the Kingsbridge Armory site.

"This is a gift from heaven and it is being rejected by the Bloomberg administration," said City Councilman Oliver Koppell.

People who live in the northeast Bronx area have been fighting for months against the proposal to bring in a homeless shelter and residents continue to say no way.

"If they bring it over here, it's just gonna bring stuff down hill, it is already going down hill as it is," said one Wakefield resident.

"We have an influx of subsidized houses already. This is just going to create more and more. When you already got a fairly decent strong community why would you want to weaken it instead of keeping it strong," said another.

City Hall says there is a need for homeless shelters and if the borough president wants input, he should participate in the process.