For decades, men experiencing homelessness across the city have been told to come to one place, the Bellevue building on East 30th Street.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the city\u2019s main intake point for single adult men seeking shelter.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
The Mamdani administration says the nearly century-old facility will close by the end of April because of severe deterioration inside the building.
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According to officials, about 250 men staying at the shelter will be relocated as the city shifts intake services to East 3rd Street in Manhattan May 1
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City officials say residents will begin moving to other shelters in mid-March ahead of the facility\u2019s closure at the end of April<\/p>\n
Now the Mamdani administration says the nearly century-old facility will close by the end of April because of severe deterioration inside the building.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey gave us papers last week saying we were going to shelter in Brooklyn,\u201d David Donhan, who lives at the shelter, said.<\/p>\n
Some residents say they learned about the closure only recently, through word of mouth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no information. We have no information,\u201d Khray Long, who lives at the shelter, said.<\/p>\n
According to the city, that communication is coming, including keeping staff at the Bellevue location for a year after closure.<\/p>\n
About 250 men staying at the shelter will be relocated as the city shifts intake services to East 3rd Street in Manhattan.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to require a massive public information campaign to make sure that people go to the right place and don\u2019t end up on the street trying to find an access point,\u201d Josh Goldfein, a staff attorney for Legal Aid Society, said.<\/p>\n
Along with outreach, advocates say location matters.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so important for the city to maintain a shelter intake point in Manhattan where the most people are,\u201d Goldfein said.<\/p>\n
Some neighbors, though, say the shelter has long brought safety concerns.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody in the building is happy. Everyone who saw the news is happy,\u201d neighboring building manager Anthonio Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez shared surveillance video with NY1 of men confronting staff at the front desk.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was jumped about seven times. My doorman was jumped.\u00a0He had 18 stitches,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Residents will begin moving to other shelters in mid-March ahead of the facility\u2019s closure at the end of April, according to city officials. But for men currently staying there, the transition means another move, and more uncertainty about what comes next.<\/p>\n
The Mamdani administration says its focus is to open several new shelters, and this closure was a necessary step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For decades, men experiencing homelessness across the city have been told to come to one place, the Bellevue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[109,25,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,87,27],"class_list":["post-154869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-louis-finley","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}