A Crown Heights grandmother who hosts as many as two dozen homeless New Yorkers at a time in her Lefferts Avenue home is faced with $32,000 in fines?accumulated since 2005?for illegally keeping beds in her kitchen and basement. Faige Jacobson has operated this makeshift homeless shelter for about 40 years; her grown-up kids help pay the inflated grocery bills while neighbors leave boxes of leftovers at the door. Despite admonitions from the Department of Homeless Services, she's intent on sticking to her cause: "Anyone who comes to Crown Heights knows they won't be out in the streets." [NYDN]
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