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De Blasio vague on next
steps after decision to
halt homeless removal
from West Side hotels
The Lucerne Hotel on Sept. 13. PHOTO BY MARK HALLUM
BY MARK HALLUM
Days of friction between the city and
homeless advocates regarding the
anticipated removal of residents
at Upper West Side hotels have led the de
Blasio administration to a decision to halt
all efforts until further notice.
Hitting the wires late Sept. 14, and
following a demonstration at the Lucerne
Hotel and Gracie Mansion, the Legal Aid
Society believes the removal of people from
current accommodations in the midst of an
ongoing health crisis would only imperil
lives of some of the most vulnerable New
Yorkers who were situated in hotels to
provide a pandemic-related safe haven in
the fi rst place.
“We are pleased that the City has paused
any transfers of families with children who
are about to start school from the Flatlands
shelter in Brooklyn; transfers of disabled
adults who have found stability with the
support of the great staff at the highly successful
Harmonia shelter in Manhattan;
and transfers of men and women, who
just want to be safe during the pandemic
from at the Lucerne and Long Island City
Plaza hotels,” Judith Goldiner, Attorneyin
Charge of the Civil Law Reform Unit at
The Legal Aid Society, said. “We continue
to negotiate on next steps and we hope the
City will arrive at a solution that ensures
that every New Yorker in a shelter can
be safe and healthy and receives the accommodations
that they are entitled to as
prescribed by law. If the City falls short of
this legal obligation, we will sue in court.”
Residents from congregate shelters
such as Wards Island were sent to hotels
originally to ease congestions and allow
those folks to maintain a healthy and isolated
environment.
The city announced it would begin the
relocation process of people placed in the
hotels after the West Side Community
Organization launched a lawsuit, with attorney
Randy Mastro at the forefront, on the
grounds that the new residents were causing
“chaos” as well as not receiving the support
a conventional shelter could provide.
“We understand and expect that the City
will honor its commitment to move folks
out of the Lucerne and into state-accredited
shelters with proper services on-site by the
end of this month,” Mastro said. “As the
Mayor has explained, SRO hotels should
only be temporary housing, and what’s
happening on the Upper West Side is ‘not
acceptable,’ so this move will be a win-win
for this neighborhood and this vulnerable
population.”
On Monday morning, de Blasio the
shuffl e of homeless New Yorkers was on
pause while litigation is still pending against
the city but that moving away from housing
in hotels – a years-long effort for the
administration – was still the ultimate goal.
“Our corporation counsel, Jim Johnson,
and our social services commissioner, Steve
Banks, are handling this jointly. They’re
looking at the whole picture of our whole
homeless services system because we want
to get back to that original policy of not being
in hotels, being in shelters where people
can get a lot more support,” de Blasio said.
“But they’re going to look at the whole picture
and then decide the next step, so I’m
not going to speak to exact days, but they’ll
be coming back soon with that vision.”
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