Tag: department of homeless services

WSR researched shelter statistics, which we present here and leave it to readers to decide.

After months of living in legal limbo, the residents of The Lucerne hotel may find out their fate on Monday, November 16th, when

Ian Alterman moved to the Upper West Side in 1965 when he was seven years old, and has lived in the same apartment on West 83rd

The City’s contract with the Hotel Association of New York City to provide emergency housing to people experiencing homelessness during the Covid-19 crisis has grown to $299,790,000

At a packed press conference and rally on Wednesday morning in front of The Lucerne hotel on West 79th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, potential 2021

”I’ll keep it short,” said several of the speakers at Monday night’s Zoom meeting about the private hotels in the neighborhood that have been

Sam Domb, the owner of The Lucerne hotel, on West 79th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, has put his nearby townhouse on the market,

A fourth private hotel on the Upper West Side has been quietly housing people who are homeless for the city since April; it is the Park West Hotel

The relocation of hundreds of homeless men to hotels on the Upper West Side has alarmed local residents, and led to a split between those

Despite reassurances from politicians that there are no sex offenders at the three new homeless shelters on the Upper West Side, the city can't bar all sex offenders

Some of the homeless men being transferred to The Lucerne Hotel on 79th Street this Monday are being moved from another hotel where there was friction with local residents, according

The de Blasio administration was in the process of phasing out the use of commercial hotels as a stopgap method of housing homeless people when the coronavirus

The Belnord Hotel, at 209 West 87th Street between Amsterdam and Broadway, has become a 149-bed “temporary emergency men’s homeless shelter,” according to a city official

Dozens of people have checked into the Hotel Belleclaire, on 77th and Broadway, in the last couple of days. According to city records and

Considering the amount of discomfort and controversy generated by their presence, you would think there were hundreds of homeless people living on the streets

Councilwoman Gale Brewer will hold a town hall meeting on Tuesday night at 6 at John Jay College, bringing along politicians and city officials from throughout the neighborhood. But the one agency that Upper West Siders have been clamoring to hear from for the past four months apparently won't be ...