• Hotel Lucerne on Upper West Side converts to ‘temporary’ homeless shelter

    Hotel Lucerne on Upper West Side converts to ‘temporary’ homeless shelter

    Normally live-and-let-live Upper West Siders are freaked out that the city’s Department of Homeless Services converted a third large neighborhood hotel into a “temporary” homeless shelter – without even warning them first. The Hotel Lucerne at 201 W. 79th St. on Monday began welcoming the first of nearly 300 homeless men, many of them methadone …