Spruce Street School sits across the street from the building where the the city wants to build a new homeless shelter for single men. That drew the ire of many CB1 at a recent quality of life subcommittee hearing. ( Source: Google Satellite) City Plan to Build Homeless Shelter Next to Elementary School Faces CB 1 Firing Squad A plan by New York City’s Department of Social Services (DSS) to open a homeless shelter at 41-43 Beekman Street was met... News 27 Nov 2023 | 05:48
State Assembly Member Dick Gottfried (center) at the Lucerne on Sunday, Sept. 13 with Council Member Helen Rosenthal (right) and Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal (left of Gottfried). Photo: Richard Gottfried on Twitter A Freeze on Homeless Hotels Mayor de Blasio said Monday he was temporarily freezing the plan he had agreed to just last week to abandon use of the Lucerne... News 14 Sep 2020 | 09:12
Community Board 7 member Katie Rosman called the DHS plan "inhumane" and "cruel." ( Photo: Jason Cohen) UWS Shelter Battle Escalates Community Board 7 and neighborhood activists are not backing down from a fight. The women’s shelter at 237 West 107th Street... News 04 Oct 2019 | 04:00
