Posted on 11/10/2021 9:06:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
NEW YORK - After several years of back-and-forth battles, a homeless shelter has opened along the so-called Billionaires' Row in Manhattan.
The former Park Savoy Hotel on West 58th Street is now a home for around 140 men.
It quietly opened last Friday despite repeated and costly efforts by neighbors to block it.
Only a handful of men have moved in so far and move-ins will be staggered each week until the shelter is full.
The shelter is being run by not-for-profit social service provider WestHab. It will serve those who are either working or actively seeking employment.
The people running the shelter say they are happy the building which had gone unused for years can finally help people in need.
They say they are looking forward to being a good neighbor.
Jim Coughlin, Westhab Chief Operating Officer says, "Opening this site represents an exciting opportunity for New York City, Westhab, and our partners to serve individuals who are unhoused in our community and support them as they get back on their feet.".
The facility is focused on supporting and working with individuals who are currently employed or who are actively seeking employment. The program onsite services such as job readiness training and job search assistance.
They say there is 24-hours security on-site and there is a 10 p.m. curfew for residents.
The shelter operates in the same neighborhood as some of the priciest real estate in New York City.
The West 58th Street Coalition, the group that waged the long legal fight against the shelter, spent at least $287,000 to hire lobbyists to help their cause, city lobbying records show.
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Such a bad idea. But it is NYC.
If I was homeless, I don’t think I would want to be placed into an obviously upper class neighborhood.
It would be clear to everyone that I didn’t really belong there and was installed as some forced Social Experiment.
My clothing, definitlely my car and address would give me away. People tend to steer clear of a newcomer when they look conspicuously out of place.
I couldn’t be happier for the Leftist on Manhattan Island.
They get to practice their principal of Equity up close and personal.
These results often come from the kind of Social Worker who owns a cat and insists their dog get used to not reacting to the cat’s presence. If it takes a threat or the withholding of food, they are on a mission to change that dogs reactive nature! “You WILL accept and love this cat b/c I say so!”
DeSantis now has an address to ship all the illegals Biden flew into Florida.
432 Park Avenue would be a nice squat
for about 10000 illegal aliens
The Savoy (when it was last a hotel) ran for around $250 but discounted down to $150 on most weekends. There must be at least a dozen well-known hotels in NYC before Covid....that are sitting there empty today. I would expect most them to be taken by the city and used for homeless ‘retreats’.
They only spend $287,000.00 trying to stop this? That is about the cost to maintain a private jet for one month.
A former co-worker, who lives on the Upper West Side, complained bitterly about the homeless that were moved nearby. Drugs, garbage, excrement, attacks. Half of them belonged in sanitariums. The rest should have been moved to hotels near the airport, instead of the middle of the city.
On my way home tonight I saw people camped out at Penn Station. They want to just do their own thing.
Liberals are the most naive people on earth.
What was the protest about? All those bleeding liberals didn’t want to live next door to the common man?
They voted for the libtard politicians who are imposing it, so......sorry, not sorry.
Agreed—it is about time the leftist wealthy got to suffer for their stupid and dangerous ideology.
If they won’t change, at least let it hurt.
Sorry...all I can think of is... haha. This sort of thing needs to happen at Cape Cod, Martha’s vineyard etc etc. So we can laugh our a**es off.
Regards,
I know of a round about neighborhood where section 8 people were put in ‘one’ of the ranch homes...the neighbors all moved away one by one. And I don’t have to explain why.
There are times when Section 8 can work out, but the tennet has to take responsibility of the property and show the consideration one would expect from any decent neighbor.
Observe noise limits. Don’t park on a slant, intruding into someone else’s space.
It’s not really hard, one would think.
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