Tag: sro

One of my first actions as the executive director of Goddard Riverside in 1998 was to try to purchase 106-108 West 83rd Street and convert it into permanent housing.

"This is not a shelter," Jones told the committee members, emphatically. "We do not do shelters."

Hank Freid’s hospitality company Impulsive Group has applied for a demolition permit to remove the second through fifth floors of 2688 Broadway

A fire Monday morning killed one person and left two others injured.

After winning the support of Community Board 7 earlier this month, opponents of the new homeless shelter being opened on West 94th Street between

The city is planning to put a 220-bed homeless shelter on a block on the Upper West Side that already has two facilities offering

A residential building that the city says operated as an illegal hotel for years has been sold, and now appears to be empty. The new owners of the Park 79 at

Landlord John Lasala appeared in Housing Court Thursday morning to discuss how he planned to ameliorate the 165 open violations cited by

The toilet rocked off its hole as Winston Pitts, 73, showed West Side Rag the bathroom he and his wife share with two other SRO tenants at 361 W. 116th Street.

Social services agency Volunteers of America is selling its nine-story building at 340 West 85th Street, forcing the relocation

July 11, 2016 Weather: Sunny, with a high of 83 degrees.

Single room occupancy buildings, a staple of Upper West Side affordable housing for decades, are disappearing fast. The latest to file plans to

In a major ruling that could effect hundreds of apartments on the Upper West Side, a New York appeals court said that

Hundreds of apartments on the Upper West Side meant for affordable housing are being openly advertised as

Just weeks after the Department of Buildings cited the Park 79 Hotel at 117 West 79th Street for operating a hotel without a valid certificate of occupancy

A state judge ruled that an apartment building on 79th street that had been reserved for low-income locals can rent rooms for as short a period as seven days, opening it up to tourists.

A fire at the Narragansett Hotel, an SRO on 93rd Street and Broadway, left one woman in critical condition early Sunday morning, according to the FDNY.

August 6, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 86 Degrees.

A week after the manager of a shelter on West 95th Street was stabbed and died, a resident of a nearby SRO on Broadway has met a similar fate. An unidentified 56-year-old resident of 2508 Broadway

April 10, 2012 Weather: Afternoon Showers, High of 62 Degrees.