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BREWER HOLDING TOWN HALL MEETING TUESDAY, WITH ONE GLARING ABSENCE
Councilwoman Gale Brewer will hold a town hall meeting on Tuesday night at 6 at John Jay College, bringing along politicians and city officials from throughout the neighborhood. But the one agency...
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HOMELESS SHELTER MEETING SET FOR WEDNESDAY; WILL SHELTER CONTRACT BE EXTENDED?
Entrance to 95th Street homeless shelter. The people responsible for placing a homeless mega-shelter on 95th Street off of Riverside Drive will finally come to the neighborhood to explain the decision...
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“THE SHELTER IS HERE TO STAY” VOWS HOMELESS COMMISSIONER; LOCALS POLS GIRD...
A long-awaited forum on Wednesday about a controversial 400-person homeless shelter on 95th street got very heated, with Borough President Scott Stringer and other politicians saying that the city...
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HOMELESS SHELTER SEEKING POSSIBLE 9-YEAR CONTRACT; OPPOSITION EFFORT TARGETS...
Aaron Biller speaks out against the 95th Street shelters at a meeting on January 30. The operator of a controversial temporary homeless shelter on West 95th Street is seeking a new five-year contract...
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UWS HOMELESS SHELTERS BRING BIG MONEY TO LANDLORD, BUT DRUG USE AND VIOLENCE...
Alan Lapes, who is the landlord for numerous Upper West Side homeless shelters, is making a lot of money by turning SRO buildings into for-profit homeless shelters like one that opened this summer on...
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DE BLASIO RETURNS DONATIONS FROM HOMELESS SHELTER LANDLORD
De Blasio at a forum on the Upper West Side last year when he pledged to look into the homeless shelter issue. Photo by Avi. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who is running for mayor, gave back $14,850...
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QUESTIONS REMAIN ABOUT HOMELESS MEGA-SHELTER, NOW CALLED ‘FREEDOM EAST’ AND...
The controversial homeless shelters at 316 and 330 West 95th street are still operating, even though it does not appear that the shelter operator has a current contract with the city. The 400-adult...
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NO CONTRACT, NO PROBLEM FOR CONTROVERSIAL HOMELESS SHELTER
Forget about no-bid contracts, the homeless mega-shelter (400 adults) on West 95th street has no contract at all, and it hasn’t had one for more than two months! The city Department of Homeless...
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TWO DEAD AT ST. LOUIS HALL IN POSSIBLE MURDER-SUICIDE
A man and a woman were found dead in a room at the St. Louis Hall SRO and supportive housing development on West 94th street this morning, in what police believe was a murder-suicide. A 44-year-old...
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MASSIVE UWS HOMELESS SHELTER CONTRACT ON THE LINE AFTER JUDGE’S BLISTERING...
The city and a well-connected homeless shelter operator on West 95th street had a nice little arrangement going for months — the Department of Homeless Services had a “handshake” deal with the shelter...
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NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP DETAILS LEGAL COMPLAINT AGAINST HOMELESS SHELTER
Nonprofit group Neighborhood in the Nineties said in a state court filing this week that the city is breaking its charter and blighting the neighborhood by putting in a 400-bed homeless shelter on West...
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TELEVISION TOSSED FROM 95TH STREET HOMELESS SHELTER
A television fell from a window of the 95th street homeless shelter, known as Freedom House, on Thursday morning, smashing into pieces on the sidewalk below, a neighbor told us. We checked with police...
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CITY KEEPS GOING EASY ON SKETCHY UWS SHELTER OPERATOR: COMPTROLLER
Comptroller John Liu is keeping up the pressure on Mayor Bloomberg over the mayor’s befuddling defense of a homeless shelter operator that has continually failed inspections. Liu says the city needs to...
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THE UWS HOMELESS SHELTER PROBLEM IS MUCH WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT
The 400-adult homeless shelter on West 95th street. An article this month from New York magazine reveals stark and disturbing facts about the family that has profited off of the proliferation of...
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TONIGHT WILL BE COLDEST IN 10 YEARS; UWS CHURCH SEEKS HELP FOR EMERGENCY...
Friday night is expected to be the coldest night in 10 years, the coldest night since your girlfriend left you for that investment banker. COLD! No no, we’re talking physical cold here. As per...
View ArticleNEW PLAYERS IN SHELTER BATTLE, BUT FIGHT CONTINUES
Gayton Gomez, who lives next door to the homeless shelter on West 95th street between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue, has been watching the courtyard under
View ArticleJUDGE DISMISSES LAWSUIT BY SHELTER OPPONENTS
Judge Margaret Chan dealt a setback to opponents of the homeless shelter on West 95th street, dismissing their claims that the shelter violates the city's "fair share" rules that say no one...
View ArticleDHS TO CUT 95TH STREET HOMELESS SHELTER POPULATION IN HALF
In a deal announced Monday, local politicians and the Department of Homeless Services said they would cut the size of the homeless shelter on West 95th street near
View Article22 ROUNDED UP IN BUST AT CONTROVERSIAL HOMELESS SHELTER
Police raided the Freedom House homeless shelter on West 95th street on Friday, rounding up 22 people with outstanding arrest warrants. The raid follows a spike in
View ArticleRALLY PLANNED AGAINST POLICE RAIDS OF HOMELESS SHELTERS
Advocates for the homeless are planning to rally on Wednesday against a decision by local police officials to raid local homeless shelters looking for people with open arrest warrants.
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