• De Blasio’s homeless hotels plague struggling restaurateurs

    De Blasio’s homeless hotels plague struggling restaurateurs

    Upper West Side restaurateurs struggling to survive COVID say the city did them no favor by moving hundreds of homeless men dealing with drug addiction into the neighborhood just as outdoor dining was getting underway. Now, in addition to making sure customers and staff are happy and safe, eatery owners also have to worry about …
  • 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 …