The hot issue of the summer — two big new homeless shelters installed without community review on 95th Street — will come to a head tonight when Community Board 7 meets. (Update: here’s what happened at the meeting.) Hundreds are expected to attend a rally at the meeting, which starts at 7 p.m. We recently got this notice from Neighborhood in the Nineties group:
UPPER WEST SIDERS RALLY AGAINST 400-PERSON SUPER-SHELTER TONIGHT AT COMMUNITY BOARD 7 MEETING, 7 PM, AT ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL AUDITORIUM
NEW YORK, NY (Tuesday, 4 September 2012) — More than 200 outraged residents of the West 90s in Manhattan will rally against a super-shelter with 400 people in a neighborhood already besieged with dozens of special needs facilities and shelters tonight at a meeting of Community Board 7 held in the Auditorium of Roosevelt Hospital, 1000 Tenth Avenue at 58th Street, Manhattan at 7 PM. The City secretly gave its former Homeless Commissioner Robert Hess a no bid, multi-year contract worth tens of millions of dollars to run the shelter at the Continental and Pennington Hotels on West 95th Street.
WHO: Outraged Upper West Side residents with Neighborhood In The Nineties group
WHAT: Rally at Community Board 7 Meeting
WHERE: Auditorium, Roosevelt Hospital, 1000 10th Avenue at West 58th Street
WHEN: TUESDAY, 4 SEPTEMBER 2012 TIME: 7 PM
Please people, if you care about your safety and quality of life, attend this rally. At the very least, the City disregarded the community by not doing outreach before moving hundreds into these shelters, while current tenants, of which there are at least 72, are opposed.
I’m with Noelle 100%. My sympathey is with the current (rent paying) tenants and those around the neighborhood. The powers that be in our fair city have their own agenda, and let the citizens be damned.
I feel the prime requirement that our next mayor should posess is that rarest of commodities – common sense.
Ms. Quinn…the ball is in your court. I wish you well.
Mayor Quinn is partying at the DNC.
and she is no help.
She allowed a 300+ bed shelter for drug addicts to open on 25th and 6th Avenue, with Yes, taxpayer money and a 35 Year lease. I kid you not.
The nerve. They should at least put this in the Bronx where it belongs.
Seriously though, why put shelters on Riverside Drive? I know people who work 2 jobs who can’t afford to live here, and the City pays 3500 per month per room for supportive housing here? WHAT? I am beyond confused.Can you imagine if they tried to pull this off next to Central Park, on the UES? The horror! The UWS needs to stand up and make it clear we will not accept being NYCs dumping ground for supportive housing, we have done our fair share, thank you very much.
Suck it UWS mega liberals.
You got what you asked for.
You knee jerk vote in far left wing extremists.
And
Two of them: Rosenthal and Brewer – sponsored and passed the law to outlaw hotel use for SRO hotels.
Even though the 72 existing tenants are beyond protected – have rent control protection and have to sign a Certificate of Non harrassment (yearly).
Maybe its time to rethink that move to Montclair – or just stay in the limo.
I never voted for Rosenthal or Brewer, and I am voting for Romney, so what’s your point? UWS says NO MORE!
Has everyone been calling Gale Brewer’s office demanding her resignment OR modification to her law to allow owners of SRO to fix them and earn an honest living as affordable transient hotels for budget minded travelers AND eventually convert the buildings to the common use of the neighbhorhood – Class A rentals, co-ops or condos?
You cannot walk ONE block on Broadway now without 1 or MORE panhandlers in your face or sprawled out on the street.
Sorry this is not acceptable behavior for them , or you or I.
This is an out of control situation.
The community needs to take action. The City is slowly destroying the West 90s. We worked very hard for decades to improve quality of life here, how dare the City destroy all we have worked for, it’s a crime. And I am moving the first chance I get.
“Besieged”? Homeless people and recovering drug addicts are citizens, just like the rest of us. It reminds me of a “Simpson’s” episode where bars turned into coffee shops and homeless people turned into mail boxes in an ad for an ideal community. Get over yourselves.
No Barry, you get over yourself. Take your bleeding heart where your mouth is and open your home to DHS.