Tulsa’s non-admitted push to move its homeless out of downtown is almost complete. After 50 years in its own large building, the downtown YMCA has moved to a smaller location in the Mayo.
The two-floors-plus-basement Y will not include: a pool, racquetball court, basketball court, parking lot or crazy homeless person warning me about the end of civilization.
This move will also close the residency program, thus creating really-homeless people.
Forty-one of the 100 residents can move to 10 N. Yale, a homeless apartment complex located several miles out of downtown. The rest are out of luck, not that they were really in-luck.
10 N. Yale is conveniently located near fine dining (Sonic), shopping (Dollar General) and quiet neighbors (Rose Hill Cemetery).
On a side note, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission decided to overlay Northeastern Oklahoma’s new area code (539), rather than make sense and break the region into two codes. The new area codes will take effect in 2011, shortly before the scheduled end of the world.
Already, people are whining about having to dial three additional numbers. Who dials numbers? I don’t know anyone’s number. I call people by pushing the person’s name in my iPhone.
Do you know who’s not whining? That’s right, the really-homeless. They’re busy stockpiling supplies for the great flood.
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(P.S. If you’re unable to get enough of me, here are Tulsa’s Worst Places to Wake-Up Dead.)
Two inaccuracies:
1 – The downtown YMCA is moving to the Mayo Building, not the Mayo Hotel. This is at 5th and Main: http://www.mayo420.com/
2 – The new area code for Northeastern Oklahoma is 539. 580 was the area code added several years ago for those desolate portions of the state to the west and south of Oklahoma City.
So what *is* the new YMCA going to have? Not that it matters, cause like you said, the end is coming soon.
@swb311: Thanks, I had caught it myself around 8 a.m. The original story posted minutes after the Corporation Commission’s decision said “580.” When I double checked this morning, I found is was actually “539.” As for the Mayo … oops.
@HelenCrump: Cardio and strength-training equipment. Dead mice.
I didn’t know Tulsa had a homeless population. I thought it just had windy streets, trees and hills.
Yet another thing lost in Tulsa that I can be nostalgic for. First they close the Snooty Fox for the Bowery now this….
Well gee, if it’s that bad, take a few home to live with you.
I personally think that the homeless should be able to stay at the Oklahoma Aquarium at night and the Jenks HS football field during the day. There’s no real reasoning behind this except F JENKS!!!