The city has stopped transferring homeless people from the commercial hotels
Read moreDetailsThe city has stopped transferring homeless people from the commercial hotels
Read moreDetailsOn Monday morning, June 28th, 11 months after 283 men experiencing homelessness moved into The Lucerne hotel on West 79th Street and Amsterdam Avenue
Read moreDetailsShams DaBaron, who used to be homeless, stood in the sunlight before a statue of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. at West 125th Street on Friday.
Read moreDetailsThe fate of the 200 men experiencing homelessness who are currently being sheltered by the city at The Lucerne hotel on West 79th Street
Read moreDetailsWith the election (almost) behind us, Upper West Siders are turning their attention back to local issues, chief among them, homelessness
Read moreDetailsIan 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
Read moreDetailsThe contract between the City and the Hotel Association of New York City (HANYC), which has resulted in 63 hotels throughout the city providing housing to 10,000
Read moreDetailsThe 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
Read moreDetailsThe homeless men living at The Lucerne Hotel on 79th Street are expected to be moved to a Radisson near Wall Street by October 5. For many of them, it
Read moreDetailsThe men experiencing homelessness at The Lucerne hotel on West 79th Street and Amsterdam Avenue won’t be moving out before the end
Read moreDetailsMore than 200 people logged in to the Community Board 7 meeting on Tuesday night to talk bike lanes, liquor licenses, smoking laws and the most heated topic
Read moreDetailsA group trying to make people experiencing homelessness feel welcome gathered outside The Lucerne Hotel on 79th Street on Saturday starting around 6 p.m.
Read moreDetailsThe fight over the Upper West Side's homeless hotels may end up in the courts, as an opposition group has demanded the mayor produce a timeline
Read moreDetails”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
Read moreDetailsWith tensions high over the city's decision to move homeless people into local hotels, the Department of Homeless Services released
Read moreDetailsOut of the Facebook group “Upper West Siders for Safer Streets,” formed in late July to protest the transfer of more than 600 homeless people
Read moreDetailsOn Monday, Community Board 7 plans to hold a public forum over Zoom to hear from various constituencies about the hotels
Read moreDetailsA 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
Read moreDetailsThe relocation of hundreds of homeless men to hotels on the Upper West Side has alarmed local residents, and led to a split between those
Read moreDetailsSome 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
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