Tag: homeless shelter

The Upper West Side building will still become a homeless shelter.

The new information includes an updated expected opening date for the shelter and the contract figure between the service provider and the city.

Just seven of his words made all the headlines.

There are now close to 7,600 asylum seekers who have been bussed from the U.S. southern border to New York City by Texas and Arizona.

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

After years of community complaints, a controversial homeless shelter at 316 West 95th Street between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive is getting

The formal approval process for the affordable-housing project proposed for West 108th Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, begins Monday evening

Police Commissioner William Bratton said that the city will stop raiding homeless shelters, following an early-morning raid at an Upper West Side shelter last month that netted 22 arrests.

Omar Hoist, a 32-year-old man referred to by police as "undomiciled," was arrested late on Tuesday and charged with raping a 28-year-old woman

Nonprofit group Neighborhood in the Nineties said in a state court filing this week that the city is breaking its charter and blighting the neighborhood by putting in a 400-bed homeless shelter on West 95th street against the community's wishes. The shelter, known as "Freedom House," has now been around ...

We've spent a lot of time on this site pointing out problems with the city's homelessness policies, and the homeless shelters on 95th street in particular. But it's also important to note that other shelters have been embraced by Upper West Siders, and are operating in a way that locals ...

Neighborhood in the Nineties, a nonprofit organization representing residents, building owners and local businesses in the West 90's, has filed suit

The city and a well-connected homeless shelter operator on West 95th street had a nice little arrangement going for months -- the Department of Homeless Services had a "handshake" deal with the shelter operator to pay the operator millions, even though they didn't have a contract. The mega-shelter, housing up ...

Forget about no-bid contracts, the homeless mega-shelter (400 adults) on West 95th street has no contract at all, and it hasn't had one for more than two months! The city Department of Homeless Services simply hasn't submitted a contract to the Comptroller's Office, a spokesperson there tells us. "Vendors who ...

Aguila, the company running the mega-shelter at 316 and 330 West 95th Street is getting extra-special scrutiny for the second time in three years, as Comptroller John Liu ordered a new audit of the company today. The audit bodes well for opponents of the shelter: Liu has to sign off ...

A long-awaited forum on Wednesday about a controversial 400-person homeless shelter on 95th street got very heated, with Borough President Scott Stringer and other politicians saying that the city Department of Homeless Services had lied to them and had used misleading tactics to keep a massive contract from getting a ...