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To make room for the planned extension of the 7 train, the Port Authority will evict the city's largest homeless drop-in center at the end of March, according to the Daily News. The Open Door shelter — which every day provides meals and showers to some 200 homeless men and women — would have closed sooner, but the city was able to convince the transit agency to delay a part of the line extension project to keep shelter visitors off the streets during the winter. Though the Open Door shelter doesn't have beds, an average of 94 people slept there per night in September. One of the regulars, 63-year-old Lee Parker, told the tabloid he has slept in a chair at the shelter each night for the past two months. "It's better than sleeping out on the street," he said. "It's safe and warm."
To compensate for the closure of the Open Door shelter, the city is hoping to use $2 million in stimulus funds to pay for the installation of beds at nearby houses of worship — but critics doubt that will make up for the loss of the facility. "With all-time record homelessness, this is no time for the Bloomberg administration to close the city's largest drop-in center for homeless people," said Patrick Markee, a policy analyst for the Coalition for the Homeless. When finished, the 7 train will extend to 34th Street and 11th Avenue to accommodate the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
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But...but...wait a minute. Bloomberg cares about all New Yorkers equally -- it said so in one of his campaign commercials. There must be some mistake here.
He does -- or at least he will once he forces the rest of us working class stiffs out.
Once NYC is only the super rich, clearly there will be no need for a homeless shelter
At that point, the Waldorf will be considered a homeless shelter. Workers of the world, just shoot the rich in the face and be done with it.
Nothing to do with Bloomjerk for once. If you want to help the homeless, go help them with your own damn money and your own damn time. Don't expect the government to reach into its already overextended pockets for more handouts.
Like the old saying goes, "Stop begging".
What's the difference between a pig and a homeless person? A pig has a home.
And drives a BMW.
Now would be a good time to develop a sense of empathy, suepart. Are *you* guaranteed a home? For as long as you live? Under any economic and ecological disaster? Are you sure?
No need to worry here - I'm sure the city will accommodate these hapless individuals by moving them to one of the many spanking new condos it has purchased in the past year...
Indeed: Bloomie already has their beautiful new home ready at 56 Leonard St.
this facility has been around for a very long time.
is this shelter a city shelter or private? because I hear safe and don't think it's a city run shelter.
anyway, I think they do a good job.
I didn't know when people fall on hard times they suddenly become animals, thanks, internet
It's an embarrassment a modern city convention center is not serviced by the subway system. I've had to explain that to out-of-towners for years. While this homeless shelter may have done wonderful things for decades, there's no getting around the price that must be paid for progress.
Unless you live on a farm in NYC and never use the subways, roads, bridges, tunnels and airports that once displaced people, please don't bother to disparage the price of progress for what you are now enjoying.