“We just feel that there was no transparency. The way that they’re rolling this out is like ninjas in the night,” Alina Bonsell, a Republican candidate for State Senate on the Upper East Side, told Patch.
The shelter will be classified as a “general population” shelter, meaning that it won’t be a shelter for people with drug addiction or mental illness, and roughly 78 percent of the residents will be employed at any given time, Patch previously reported.
All of the residents will have case managers and social workers assigned to them. No men or children will be at this site. All of the residents will be referred through the city’s Department of Homeless Services.
The shelter will operate across an eight-floor building, with three floors dedicated to dormitory-style rooms sleeping 13 to 14. The residents will share bathrooms and showers on each dormitory floor.
The shelter has 24/7 security officers, as well as staff. There is also a floor for offices, with 46 staff members, and a level for the cafeteria. The women at the shelter will be served three meals a day, as well as snacks.