Upper West Side Residents said they are concerned after a bait-and-switch tactic led to the city to approve a homeless shelter on 74th Street.
These are some of the major concerns a group of Upper West Side residents have about the city’s plan to move forward with a women’s homeless shelter at the site of a former private elementary school located at 160 West 74 St., nestled in the, was formed this year to save the historic four-story Calhoun School building, which closed its doors in July 2023, from becoming temporary housing. The building stood as a schoolhouse on a brownstone-lined street for more than 100 years.
But something changed on Dec. 14, 2023, when the NYC Department of Social Services sent a letter to Manhattan Community Board 7 and local elected officials alerting the community that the school would indeed become a homeless shelter in the fall of 2024. City Council Member Gale Brewer , upon learning of the upcoming shelter in December, sent letters of concern to city officials about the lack of transparency.
The Upper West Side shelter will serve 146 single adult women, including those experiencing mental health challenges. The city contracted Volunteers of America – Greater New York to run the facility.
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