A state judge has nixed a controversial plan to open a city homeless shelter for ex-cons and drug addicts steps from a lower Manhattan elementary school.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron said the city failed to fully consider “all potential negative effects” of the 106-bed facility planned for a former Hampton Inn at 320 Pearl St. – including the entrance being a mere five feet from the Peck Slip School , and an outdoor smoking area near school windows.

“There are two, eight-hundred pound gorillas in the room,” wrote Engoron in an Aug. 25 ruling.

A judge has stopped the city from putting a shelter steps from a school. Helayne Seidman

“The first is the fact that the proposal would place a shelter for troubled adults adjacent to a school for three-to-eleven-year-olds. .

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