Zero Hedge: NYC Hotel Occupancy Rate Crashes Toward 10% As Permanent Closures Loom
Prices at New York City hotels have plunged as the hospitality industry continues to try and grapple with the effects of the global pandemic.
Crain’s New York Business: Investors are looking for ways to repurpose now-empty hotels
Craig Deitelzweig made his mark in real estate by buying office buildings and making them look and feel like hotels. “Why shouldn’t you feel like you’re on vacation when you’re at work?” he asks. His redevelopment of the offices at 10 Grand Central is evocative of a chic, boutique hotel with a signature scent pumping through its ducts.
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.