Tag: homelessness

We are reposting this article because the “right to shelter” is at the center of the current migrant crisis facing NYC and the neighborhood.

"It is ridiculous in retrospect that we had to learn that homeless people did not want to live on the streets."

New York is the only major city in the country that offers a legal "right to shelter" to anyone within its borders who requests it.

"The planned four beds per room at the 83rd Street facility raises significant concerns.”

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

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

Has anyone seen the teams?

Shams DaBaron, who used to be homeless, stood in the sunlight before a statue of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. at West 125th Street on Friday.

On Thursday night, a group of New Yorkers running for mayor sat down at a virtual table with a group

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 homeless men living at The Lucerne Hotel on West 79th Street have the right to stay there while judges consider their case in more detail, a state appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

The fate of the 200 men experiencing homelessness who are currently being sheltered by the city at The Lucerne hotel on West 79th Street

OneBlock, an organization where Upper West Siders “adopt” one neighborhood block to clean up twice weekly, has experienced

Homeless men and women were left to languish in packed hotel rooms and shelters as COVID-19 raged in New York City, putting them at heightened risk of serious illness

The homeless men living at The Lucerne Hotel can start to be moved to a Radisson downtown after a judge denied a motion by opponents to stop the move.

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 is delaying its plan to move men from The Lucerne Hotel to a Radission downtown to better prepare the downtown site, according

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

The 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