The Broadsheet: The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 10/19/20 ~ Off Again, On Again… Judge Declines to Prevent Move of Homeless Men to 52 William
State Supreme Court Justice Debra James on Friday rebuffed a legal motion by Downtown New Yorkers, Inc.—which organized in recent weeks to mobilize against a plan by the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio to relocate more than 200 homeless men to a vacant hotel in the Financial District—to halt the transfer, pending further litigation.
Gothamist: Judge Denies Request To Block Move Of Homeless Men From Lucerne To FiDi Hotel
A planned move of homeless men from the Lucerne Hotel on the Upper West Side to another hotel in the Financial District will proceed after a state Supreme Court judge declined to block the move.
Sky News: Empty hotels being used as homeless shelters shows the huge economic cost of COVID in New York
With travel to New York banned from 35 US states, the city’s economy is struggling to stay afloat.
The Homeless Times: Judge Denies Request To Block Move Of Homeless Men From Lucerne To FiDi Hotel
A planned move of homeless men from the Lucerne Hotel on the Upper West Side to another hotel in the Financial District will proceed after a state Supreme Court judge declined to block the move.
New York Post: Lucerne Hotel homeless win court order barring their move downtown for now
Hall’s embattled plan to move hundreds of homeless New Yorkers from a controversial Upper West Side hotel to the Financial District remained in limbo Monday after shelter residents won an emergency court ruling that temporarily blocks their relocation downtown.
Commercial Observer: Serious Reservations: Midtown South’s Hotels Confront COVID
Few are sold on the pivots these boutique inns have taken to survive the pandemic
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Bloomberg: With Prices Down $200 Per Room, NYC Hotels Brace for More Pain
he Midtown Hilton has been closed since March. Same for The Edition, a brand new Times Square boutique. You can get a room at the Pierre, just don’t expect the full-suite of white-glove services that have made the hotel a Manhattan landmark since 1930.