Tag: homeless shelters

Like it or not, we are still a largely progressive neighborhood.

The city has stopped transferring homeless people from the commercial hotels

Lisa Greenwald, a public high school teacher and Upper West Sider, started a new tradition last spring. Every Wednesday she cooks and delivers meals

The Department of Homeless Services has announced plans for a new homeless shelter at 537 West 59th Street, the current home of the Manhattan News Network.

The men experiencing homelessness at The Lucerne hotel on West 79th Street and Amsterdam Avenue won’t be moving out before the end

Harmonia Hotel resident Mike Bonano has used a rented U-Haul to help neighbors cope with Mayor de Blasio’s whiplash decisions on shelters.

On Monday, Community Board 7 plans to hold a public forum over Zoom to hear from various constituencies about the hotels

Mayor de Blasio addressed complaints about homeless people being placed in hotels during a discussion with reporters on Monday, saying the city is going

Michael Alvarez came to my attention when he posted eloquently on the Facebook group “Upper Westsiders For Safer Streets,” revealing that he was a homeless resident of the The Lucerne Hotel.

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

A group of people, including several children, came out on Sunday to write chalk messages in front of The Lucerne Hotel on 79th Street welcoming residents to the community.

Councilmember Helen Rosenthal sent out an email on Sunday shifting her stance on certain issues surrounding the new homeless shelters that have been placed

The Lucerne Hotel at 201 West 79th Street will be used to house 283 homeless people who have been staying at shelters downtown, as a way to reduce the population

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

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

Wanda Mercado moved a few weeks ago, but today she’s back on her old stoop on the Upper West Side. She’s a familiar face on 107th Street – it seems every few minutes

Politicians are planning to rally on Monday afternoon to push back against a city plan to turn a women's homeless shelter

Despite rumors that resident relocation is imminent, elected officials and Community Board 7 are doing their best to reverse the decision by the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) to

Over 60 Upper West Side residents attended Tuesday night’s meeting of Community Board 7’s Health and Human

The city is planning to turn a women's shelter at 237 West 107th Street into a men's shelter, and that's alarmed some residents, who plan to attend